Death of a Salesman de Arthur Miller

Date de parution : 05.1998
Format : Broché
Nombre de pages : 144
Résumé : The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman’s deferred American dream A Penguin Classic   Since it was first performed in 1949! Arthur Miller's 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. For more than seventy years! Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1!700 titles! Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the ...