Books by Arthur Miller

Book SynopsisLos últimos y más nostágicos relatos de uno de los grandes escritores norteamericanos.Una profunda nostalgia destila Presencia, una selección de relatos escritos por Arthur Miller en los últimos años de su vida y aparecidos en publicaciones como The New Yorker, Harper?s o Esquire. Los cuentos se ordenan dibujando el arco completo de una vida: desde el despertar sexual de un joven de Brooklyn, pasando por las desgracias maritales de un escritor que intenta recobrar su talento escribiendo sobre la piel de una mujer desnuda, hasta llegar a las cavilaciones junto a la playa de un anciano. Narra también la angustia de un bailarín de claqué judío que tiene que actuar ante Hitler... y lo cautiva; o la fascinación que sobre un hombre de mediana edad ejercen Haití y, en particular, uno de sus habitantes, un emprendedor que quiere aportar su grano de arena para librar al país de la pobreza. Estos magistrales ejercicios de memoria recogen momentos de desdicha o de algo parecido a la felicidad de unos personajes desplazados a los márgenes de la vida. Sin duda, Miller cierra su obra con leves notas otoñales que, sin embargo, a veces tienen una luminosidad estival: el legado memorable de una obra viva.

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Book SynopsisSus editores norteamericanos la rescataron en 1986, con un prólogo del autor, que reproducimos en nuestra edición, y, desde estonces, ya no ha dejado de reimprimirse una y otra vez. Y no es de extrañar. Porque En el punto de mira , que, según el propio Miller, escribió con una sensación de urgencia en el mismo año en que terminaba la segunda guerra mundial, ha ido adquiriendo con el tiempo ?como suele ocurrir con las grandes obras literarias? un sentido más amplio, premonitorio, admonitorio incluso.Cuando el señor Newman fue perdiendo la visión y se compró unas gafas, sus amigos y conocidos empezaron a tratarlo con reserva y hasta con suspicacia. Y es que, de pronto, el aspecto del señor Newman pasó a ser el de un judío, aunque ni él ni la gente a su alrededor jamás hubieran reparado antes en ello. En la ciudad de Nueva York, en 1945, con el Frente Cristiano en pleno auge, tener semejante aspecto no facilitaba la existencia a nadie. A partir de es

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Book SynopsisThe Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman’s deferred American dream, presented here with enlightening commentary and criticismWilly 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.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. This Viking

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Book SynopsisProduced in May 1998 in New York and starring Peter Falk, Mr. Peters' Connections takes place, in Miller's own words, in that suspended state of consciousness when the mind is freed to roam from real memories to conjectures, from trivialities to tragic insights, from terror of death to glorying in one's being alive. Within the confines of his mind, Mr. Peters interacts with the living members of his family and his long-deceased brother and lover, as well as the imaginary Adele, a black bag lady, who is a figment of Peters' imagination and one of Miller's most original characters. A work of rare honesty and dignity (Fintan O'Toole, New York Daily News), Mr. Peters' Connections uncoils with ferocious, life-affirming intensity.

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Book SynopsisArthur Miller’s penultimate play, Resurrection Blues, is a darkly comic satirical allegory that poses the question: What would happen if Christ were to appear in the world today? In an unidentified Latin American country, General Felix Barriaux has captured an elusive revolutionary leader. The rebel, known by various names, is rumored to have performed miracles throughout the countryside. The General plans to crucify the mysterious man, and the exclusive television rights to the twenty-four-hour reality-TV eventhave been sold to an American network for $25 million. An allegory that asserts the interconnectedness of our actions and each person’s culpability in world events, Resurrection Blues is a comedic and tragic satire of precarious morals in our media-saturated age.

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Book SynopsisFor Arthur Miller's centennial year, The Library of America and editor Tony Kushner present the final volume in the definitive collected edition of the essential American dramatist. Here are eleven masterful, haunting, funny, and provocative later plays, from the double-bill Danger: Memory (1987) to Finishing the Picture (2004), Miller’s final stage work, based loosely on events around the filming of The Misfits, in 1960, with Marilyn Monroe. In between, Miller revisits the perennially rich themes that define his work—the vagaries of fate and chance, the press of public events on private lives—with such plays as The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, The Last Yankee, Broken Glass, Mr. Peters’ Connections, and Resurrection Blues. Also presented in the volume are the early play The Golden Years, about the conquest of Mexico, which Miller revised for its first production in 1987; several shorter one-act plays and never-before-published early works and radio plays; and a selection of Miller’s incisive prose reflections on his art, among them “On Screenwriting and Language” and “About Theatre Language.”LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

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