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Format : Broché
Nb de pages : 176 pages
Poids : 262 g
Dimensions : 15cm X 23cm
EAN : 9782864603467

Arthur Miller, Death of a salesman

De Georges-Michel Sarotte,

Chez Didier-Erudition

Collection(s) | Collection CNED-Didier concours

Paru le 01/10/1998

Broché 176 pages

Quatrième de couverture

Death of a Salesman has been called the `quintessential American play', and Arthur Miller remains above all the creator of Willy Loman and his tormented family. Half a century after its epochal première on Broadway the play is constantly revived in the USA and all over the world, including China. It has been made into several cinema and television films, and audiences are still deeply moved by this poignant `American tragedy' that manages to present all the contradictions and the beauty of the American Dream. Using colloquial American English, Miller has written not only a great play-a world classic-, but also a vibrant poetic tribute to his country. In his own words, Death of a Salesman `is, really, a love story between a man and his son, and ... between both of them and America.'

The author of the present essay explores the various facets of the drama. Taking into account most of what has been written on Miller's masterpiece, he advances his own theories about a play he has taught in French and American universities for over twenty years.

Biographie

Georges-Michel Sarotte is Professor of American Literature at the University of Paris X-Nanterre. He is the author of an essay on American Literature (Comme un frère, comme un amant, Flammarion ; Like a Brother, Like a Lover, Doubleday) ; he has translated American, English and Irish novels, and written numerous articles on the American novel and theatre. He is also the author of two novels, the second one La Romanesque (Grasset) was nominated for the Prix Goncourt in 1988.