內容簡介
推銷員之死
榮獲美國普立茲獎
The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman’s deferred American dream
《Death of a Salesman》為一部社會寫實經典名劇，描繪逐漸在現實生活中失去事業能力的推銷員威利•羅曼邁向死亡的歷程，藉小人物的悲劇，呈現資本主義下美國夢的幻滅。
作者亞瑟•米勒運用意識流的手法，讓人物不斷在現實的情境、虛幻的過去及想像的對話中移動。劇本甫發表即榮獲1949年普立茲獎，奠定了他在美國劇壇的地位。該劇不只成為美國百老匯舞台劇名作，並多次拍成電影，翻譯為多國文字，在世界各地上演，堪稱二十世紀美國極具代表性的文學作品之一。
〈A Penguin Classic 〉Since it was first performed in 1949, Arthur Millerˊs Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about the tragic shortcomings of an American dreamer has been recognized as a milestone of the theater. Willy Loman, the protagonist of Death of a Salesman, has spent his life following the American way, living out his belief in salesmanship as a way to reinvent himself. But somehow the riches and respect he covets have eluded him. At age 63, he searches for the moment his life took a wrong turn, the moment of betrayal that undermined his relationship with his wife and destroyed his relationship with Biff, the son in whom he invested his faith. Willy lives in a fragile world of elaborate excuses and daydreams, conflating past and present in a desperate attempt to make sense of himself and of a world that once promised so much. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by Christopher W. E. Bigsby.
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作者介紹
Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915 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. He has also written 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. More recent works include a memoir, Timebends (1987), and the plays The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (1991), The Last Yankee (1993), Broken Glass (1993), which won the Olivier Award for Best Play of the London Season, and Mr. Peter‘s Connections (1998). His latest book is On Politics and the Art of Acting. Miller was granted with the 2001 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He has twice won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and in 1949 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
