作者简介

Arthur Miller (1915–2005) was born in New York City and studied at the University of Michigan. His plays include All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), A View from the Bridge and A Memory of Two Mondays (1955), After the Fall (1963), Incident at Vichy (1964), The Price (1968), The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972) and The American Clock (1980). He also wrote two novels, Focus (1945), and The Misfits, which was filmed in 1960, and the text for In Russia (1969), Chinese Encounters (1979), and In the Country (1977), three books of photographs by his wife, Inge Morath. His later work included a memoir, Timebends (1987); the plays The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (1991), The Last Yankee (1993), Broken Glass (1994), and Mr. Peter's Connections (1999); Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays, 1944–2000; and On Politics and the Art of Acting (2001). He twice won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and in 1949 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Miller was the recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 2001 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters in 2002, and the Jerusalem Prize in 2003.

内容简介

Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has become a symbol for a kind of majestic grandiosity—and a play that compresses epic extremes of humor and anguish, promise and loss, between the four walls of an American living room.


Arthur Miller (1915–2005) was born in New York City and studied at the University of Michigan. His plays include All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), A View from the Bridge and A Memory of Two Mondays (1955), After the Fall (1963), Incident at Vichy (1964), The Price (1968), The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972) and The American Clo...

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  • asoholic
    这大概大学老师从大一推荐到大四的书吧...作者用如虚如幻的方式一点点将梦的破碎呈现出来,越到后面越觉得这不是简单的“美国梦的破碎”,而是内心更深处一种作为人的存在的梦想的破碎。07-18
  • miraflores
    拒绝看到现实,天真而一意孤行地相信虚无的梦。《了不起的盖茨比》最后一句话也可以用来归纳这个剧本:So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.06-26
  • 华氏451
    活着好累 Life is struggle 06-16
  • readreadread
    值得反复读,反复被警示Willy很烦,但可怜。一辈子活在不切实际的梦里,拉着妻子和儿子一起做梦。最后一家人每个人都悲惨。永远看不清现实和自己。04-12
  • 两寸
    “He only needed a little salary." "No man only needs a little salary."06-07

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