Arthur Miller: Timebends, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Timebends
- A Life
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- Verlag:
- Grove Atlantic, 07/2013
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780802146144
- Artikelnummer:
- 1925241
- Umfang:
- 656 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 770 g
- Maße:
- 211 x 139 mm
- Stärke:
- 48 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 9.7.2013
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Klappentext
The definitive memoir of Arthur Miller--the famous playwright of "The Crucible," "All My Sons," "Death of a Salesman," "A View from the Bridge," and other plays--"Timebends" reveals Miller's incredible trajectory as a man and a writer.
Born in 1915, Miller grew up in Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s, developed leftist political convictions during the Great Depression, achieved moral victory against McCarthyism in the 1950s, and became president of PEN International near the end of his life, fighting for writers' freedom of expression. Along the way, his prolific output established him as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century--he wrote twenty-two plays, various screenplays, short stories, and essays, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1949 for "Death of a Salesman"and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1947 for "All My Sons." Miller also wrote the screenplay for The Misfits, Marilyn Monroe's final film.
This memoir also reveals the incredible host of notables that populated his life, including Marilyn Monroe, Elia Kazan, Clark Gable, Sir Laurence Olivier, John F. Kennedy, and Mikhail Gorbachev. Leaving behind a formidable reputation in the worlds of theater, cinema, and politics, Arthur Miller died in 2005 but his memoir continues his legacy.
Biografie
Arthur Miller, geb. 1915 in New York, verbrachte seine Kindheit in Brooklyn und Harlem. Er studierte Publizistik, Anglistik, Literatur- und Theaterwissenschaften. Der große Börsenkrach und die anschließende Weltwirtschaftskrise, deren soziale Auswirkungen er in den 30er Jahren u.a. als Hafen- und Landarbeiter direkt zu spüren bekam, sind Schlüsselerlebnisse für sein Leben und Schreiben. Die Verarbeitung des Themas in 'Death of a Salesman' bringt ihm 1949 Weltruhm. Er erhielt u.a. 1949 den Pulitzerpreis, 2002 den Prinz-von-Asturien-Preis und 2003 den Jerusalem-Preis. 2005 verstarb Arthur Miller.