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 
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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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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...  

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I read a lot of reviews about this play, where the reviewers think of this story as a tragedy of the society. However I think of it more as a lesson of adapting to the society. The world changes and people change with it, and if one does not have the cour...  

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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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深夜十二点一个人在家里读《推销员之死》,实在是件非常自虐的事情,以至于我最后不得不上新浪微博,借众人之口平息自己的情绪。 英文叫做Salesman,如果翻译成“推销员”使我们有距离的话,换一个词——销售,会不会比较贴近我们此刻的生活? 事实上,威利确实不是我们通常所...  

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深夜十二点一个人在家里读《推销员之死》,实在是件非常自虐的事情,以至于我最后不得不上新浪微博,借众人之口平息自己的情绪。 英文叫做Salesman,如果翻译成“推销员”使我们有距离的话,换一个词——销售,会不会比较贴近我们此刻的生活? 事实上,威利确实不是我们通常所...  

用户评价

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不知道为什么不是很喜欢

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

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电影式结构戏剧的经典之作。 究竟是作了不该作的梦,还是命运多作弄。

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

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