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”。
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
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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"...
评分面对万仞高山,我们只有有惊叹,在读莎士比亚的戏剧时,我是有这样的感想。但我内心中,依然相信在大工业时代、在面对更复杂的经济和人与人之间关系的今天,应该存在一些剧作家,他们的不但能像莎士比亚那样梦笔生花,又能透过纷杂的关系,通过小人物的符号来更生动地讽刺...
评分文学课让看这个,并且结合着米勒自己的这篇品论来写分析。米勒写的看死我了。。。只能自己译着,帮助自己理解。于是放上来好了。不通顺之处,敬请谅解。 ^ O ^ 现如今,少有人写悲剧。这被认为是因为我们中间缺少英雄,或者现代人由于科学怀疑而缺少了血性,而生活中英雄...
评分也许威利的梦想中最悲哀的一面是,这些梦想有好多都与他无关。它们是从大众文化的储藏架上现拽出来的商品化的梦想。更绝望的是,威利身边的人都懂得这一点,他们试图向威利发出警告,可是他根本不听。 在话剧的一开始,威利的邻居和朋友查理由衷称赞威利为自家客厅吊顶的本事。...
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评分所以背贷款和有车又怎样,不一样是失败的美国梦。
评分不知道为什么不是很喜欢
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