The reluctance of contemporary Irish playwright Brian Friel to speak with the press is legendary. Fortunately, his willingness on occasion to grant interviews has fortuitously coincided with the productions of his pivotal works, including the highly celebrated "Dancing at Lughnasa," recently released as a motion picture starring Meryl Streep. In this comprehensive volume, theater critic and scholar Paul Delaney gathers an amazingly broad and consistently engaging range of Friel's conversations with interviewers on both sides of the Atlantic.Friel talks with disarming openness about his own life. He is also surprisingly candid in decrying a "dehydration of humanity" in Pinter and an "abnegation of life" in Beckett, in pondering the dangers of Irish writers who are "having to use a language that isn't our own," in revealing that his plays grow out of a willingness to "delve into a particular corner of yourself that's dark and uneasy," and in talking about the way that "Dancing at Lughnasa" manifests his sense of "a need for the pagan in life."Friel has preferred to talk primarily with Irish interviewers throughout much of his career, and many of his most important interviews were printed in rather obscure publications. "Brian Friel in Conversation" makes available interviews that were formally virtually inaccessible, as well as more recent interviews in places such as the "New York Times, Vanity Fair," and "Vogue." The book concludes with an extensive bibliography and discography of Friel interviews to aid further reading and research.Paul Delaney is Professor of English, Westmont College. He is the author of "Tom Stoppard: The Moral Vision of the Major Plays" and editor of "Tom Stoppard in Conversation," a collection of interviews.
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评分读完第一部分,我立刻被一种强烈的代入感所笼罩。作者的叙述方式非常具有穿透力,他似乎有一种魔力,能将那些抽象的、理论性的探讨,瞬间转化为我们都能感同身受的场景。我感觉自己仿佛不是在阅读文字,而是在倾听一位智者在炉火边娓娓道来的那些关于戏剧本质的私密对谈。他对于角色塑造的理解,那种对人性复杂性的深刻洞察,简直让人拍案叫绝。尤其是在探讨地域性和普遍性之间的张力时,我能清晰地感受到文字背后那种挣扎与和解,就像是舞台上的灯光在明暗之间快速切换,充满了戏剧张力。这本书的节奏感把握得极好,时而如潺潺溪流般平缓,时而又如火山喷发般热烈,这种抑扬顿挫的阅读体验,让人欲罢不能。每一次翻页,都像是揭开了一个新的谜团,充满了探索的乐趣。
评分这本书给我带来的最直接感受,是那种被激发出来的创作冲动。它就像是一剂强效的“催化剂”,让原本沉睡在心底的那些关于舞台构想的零散火花,一下子被点燃并迅速蔓延开来。作者对于排练过程细节的描摹,那种对“不完美”的接纳与拥抱,特别鼓舞人心。他似乎在告诉每一位创作者:不必追求完美无缺的蓝图,真正的生命力往往诞生于不断的试验、错误和修正之中。在某些章节,我甚至能想象到作者在会议室里与导演、演员们激烈讨论的场景,那种思想碰撞出的火花,即便只通过文字记录,依然能感受到其灼热的温度。这本书无疑是为所有对戏剧怀抱热情的人准备的一份精神食粮,它不仅传授技巧,更重要的是,它在滋养着创作者那颗永不满足于现状的心。
评分这本书的封面设计一下子就抓住了我的眼球,那种简约而不失深度的风格,让人立刻联想到舞台上灯光聚焦的那一瞬间。纸张的质感也非常棒,拿在手里沉甸甸的,仿佛就能感受到文字里蕴含的厚重历史感。我特别喜欢它排版上的用心之处,字体大小和行间距的拿捏恰到好处,即便是长时间阅读也不会感到视觉疲劳。阅读的过程就像是走进了剧院的后台,那些幕布拉开前的宁静、演员们紧张又兴奋的状态,都能通过这些文字生动地浮现在脑海里。从书本的整体装帧来看,出版方显然对这位剧作家抱有极大的敬意,每一个细节都透露出匠心独白。这不仅仅是一本书,更像是一件值得珍藏的艺术品,它的存在本身就为我的书架增添了一份独特的文化气息。我甚至会时不时地拿起它,摩挲一下封面,感受那种创作的温度和时代的烙印,这种实体书的体验是电子设备完全无法替代的。
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