Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem - Couverture souple

Miller, Arthur

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0141182741 ISBN 13 : 9780141182742

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2000

Synopsis

Arthur Miller's extraordinary masterpiece, Death of a Salesman changed the course of modern theatre, and has lost none of its power as an examination of American life.

'A man is not an orange. You can't eat the fruit and throw the peel away'

Willy Loman is on his last legs. Failing at his job, dismayed at his the failure of his sons, Biff and Happy, to live up to his expectations, and tortured by his jealousy at the success and happiness of his neighbour Charley and his son Bernard, Willy spirals into a well of regret, reminiscence, and A scathing indictment of the ultimate failure of the American dream, and the empty pursuit of wealth and success, is a harrowing journey. In creating Willy Loman, his destructively insecure anti-hero, Miller defined his aim as being 'to set forth what happens when a man does not have a grip on the forces of life'.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

American dramatist Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915. In 1938 Miller won awards for his comedy The Grass Still Grows. His major achievement was Death of a Salesman, which won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for drama and the 1949 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. The Crucible was aimed at the widespread congressional investigation of subversive activities in the US; the drama won the 1953 Tony Award. Miller's autobiography, Timebends: A Life was published in 1987.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

In the spring of 1948 Arthur Miller retreated to a log cabin in Connecticut with the first two lines of a new play already fixed in his mind. He emerged six weeks later with the final script of Death of a Salesman - a painful examination of American life and consumerism. Opening on Broadway the following year, Miller's extraordinary masterpiece changed the course of modern theatre. In creating Willy Loman, his destructively insecure anti-hero, Miller himself defined his aim as being 'to set forth what happens when a man does not have a grip on the forces of life.'

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0141182741
• ISBN 13: 9780141182742
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: {language_tag:fr_FR,value:"Van Ditmar Boeken BV; sales@vanditmar.nl"}