Death of a Salesman

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阿瑟·米勒(1915—2005),美国最杰出的戏剧大师之一,被誉为“美国戏剧的良心”。

出版者:Penguin Books
作者:Arthur Miller
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页数:144
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出版时间:1998-10-6
价格:USD 13.00
装帧:Paperback
isbn号码:9780140481341
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  • 戏剧 
  • Arthur.Miller 
  • 美国文学 
  • 美国 
  • ArthurMiller 
  • drama 
  • 剧本 
  • 英文原版 
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Book Description

Arthur Miller seemed to capture the sometimes tragic plight of the common man with his Death of a Salesman. Bloom suggests the strength of the play is puzzling but beyond dispute, lying more in its presentation on stage than its written form. The play's continued vitality is unquestioned.

The title, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Arthur Miller, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.

Amazon.com

Arthur Miller's 1949 Death of a Salesman has sold 11 million copies, and Willy Loman didn't make all those sales on a smile and a shoeshine. This play is the genuine article--it's got the goods on the human condition, all packed into a day in the life of one self-deluded, self-promoting, self-defeating soul. It's a sturdy bridge between kitchen-sink realism and spectral abstraction, the facts of particular hard times and universal themes. As Christopher Bigsby's mildly interesting afterword in this 50th-anniversary edition points out (as does Miller in his memoir, Timebends), Willy is closely based on the playwright's sad, absurd salesman uncle, Manny. But of course Miller made Manny into Everyman, and gave him the name of the crime commissioner Lohmann in Fritz Lang's angst-ridden 1932 Nazi parable, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse.

The tragedy of Loman the all-American dreamer and loser works eternally, on the page as on the stage. A lot of plays made history around 1949, but none have stepped out of history into the classic canon as Salesman has. Great as it was, Tennessee Williams's work can't be revived as vividly as this play still is, all over the world. (This edition has edifying pictures of Lee J. Cobb's 1949 and Brian Dennehy's 1999 performances.) It connects Aristotle, The Great Gatsby, On the Waterfront, David Mamet, and the archetypal American movie antihero. It even transcends its author's tragic flaw of pious preachiness (which undoes his snoozy The Crucible, unfortunately his most-produced play).

No doubt you've seen Willy Loman's story at least once. It's still worth reading.

       --Tim Appelo

From Library Journal

This 50th-anniversary edition of Miller's masterpiece, which certainly is a contender for the finest American drama of the 20th century, includes the full text of the play, a chronology of its productions, photos from various stagings including the current Broadway revival, and a new preface by Miller himself, all in a quality hardcover for a reasonable price. Bravo, Penguin.

From The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature

A play in "two acts and a requiem" by Arthur Miller, written in 1948 and produced in 1949. Miller won a Pulitzer Prize for the work, which he described as "the tragedy of a man who gave his life, or sold it" in pursuit of the American Dream. After many years on the road as a traveling salesman, Willy Loman realizes he has been a failure as a father and husband. His sons, Happy and Biff, are not successful--on his terms (being "well-liked") or any others. His career fading, Willy escapes into reminiscences of an idealized past. In the play's climactic scene, Biff prepares to leave home, starts arguing with Willy, confesses that he has spent three months in jail, and mocks his father's belief in "a smile and a shoeshine." Willy, bitter and broken, his illusions shattered, commits suicide.

Book Dimension

length: (cm)19.7                 width:(cm)12.8

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“What is the answer? How did you do it?”在Arthur Miller的剧本“Death of a Salesman”中,米勒描写了一个郁郁不得志的年过花甲的销售员如何在家庭与事业的泥潭中奋力挣扎,又如何最终选择了自杀的故事.开头的这句台词就是Willy最喜欢问的问题.关于这个剧本的评析已经遍布了...  

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读之前就知道是部很好的戏剧。因为是悲剧,一直拖着没读,后来鼓足了勇气去读。一口气读下来,就是为了一口气的痛。 在压抑的城市里,人总要压抑地活着。老威利为了家庭,总是打肿脸充胖子,和妻子、儿子、邻居炫耀自己的推销员事业。妻子为了他的自尊而逢迎,儿子们对他的不屑...  

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“What is the answer? How did you do it?”在Arthur Miller的剧本“Death of a Salesman”中,米勒描写了一个郁郁不得志的年过花甲的销售员如何在家庭与事业的泥潭中奋力挣扎,又如何最终选择了自杀的故事.开头的这句台词就是Willy最喜欢问的问题.关于这个剧本的评析已经遍布了...  

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是条件平等,还是结果平等?这是几个月前在一个公益网站上看见的疑问.美国相比于中国,无疑在条件上制造了相对的平等,同样的教育,同样的环境,同样的起点.可是这就能杜绝社会的阴暗丑恶面吗?显然不能. 听说阿瑟·米勒被誉为美国戏剧节的良心.一年前有幸拜读过他的著作"萨伦姆女巫"...  

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Being a little child, I became quite familiar with my father’s footsteps. When he came back from work, I had already rushed towards the door and opened it for him. I suppose I just got very happy to see him after a long while. But when I grew up, what I fe...  

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太喜欢这种负能量满满的本子了,戏剧的创作空间果然很玄幻,当死亡变成解脱简直是卢瑟的天堂

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不喜欢

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He had the wrong dreams. All, all, wrong.

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悲剧的地方不在于平庸,而是注定平庸。

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He had the wrong dreams. All, all, wrong.

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