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Death of a Salesman: Play in Two Acts

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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

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deep - Following the war, no work of literature reflected the sense of alienation best than his play Death of a Salesman. The play opened on Broadway in February 1949, met a huge success and won the Pulitzer Prize and many others awards and still remains today. It is the story of Willy Loman who instantly became one of the postwar as his name indicates it he is a low man, lost and bewildered defeated by circumstances and by his own personal weaknesses. The play shows that all failures are caused by false dreams that lead to the disintegration of the family. For Miller the family is used as a vehicle exploring the disturbances of society and what he wants to show is people are connected to each other through responsibility, this underlines ethical dimension of his theater.

Un chef d oeuvre d Arthur Miller - L’accueil qu’a reçu cette pièce lors de la première représentation à Philadelphie dans le Locust Street Theater reflète sa profondeur et son impact psycologique: à la tombée du rideau, personne n’a applaudi. Plusieurs spectateurs pleuraient, d’autres parlaient doucement entre eux en petits groupes. C’est seulement quelques minutes après que les applaudissements ont commencé. Death of a Salesman raconte en effet le combat, à la fois pathétique et poignant, d’une petite famille typiquement américaine. L’intimité et la fatalité de la pièce ont touché bien des spectateurs et des lecteurs à travers le monde (y compris en Chine…).




Death of a Salesman: Play in Two Acts