Eugene O'Neill: A Life in Four Acts

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 584 pages, 49 b-w illus.

Publisher:Yale University Press

Imprint:Yale University Press

ISBN:9780300219715

Published:1 Apr 2016

Weight:764g

Dimensions:232 x 149 x 32 (mm)

Language:English

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

尤金·奥尼尔（Eugene O'Neill，1888—1953），美国著名剧作家，被视为美国戏剧的奠基人，一生四次获得普利策戏剧奖，并于1936年获诺贝尔文学奖。

A major new biography of the Nobel Prize–winning playwright whose brilliantly original plays revolutionized American theater

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize

This extraordinary new biography fully captures the intimacies of Eugene O’Neill’s tumultuous life and the profound impact of his work on American drama. Robert M. Dowling innovatively recounts O’Neill’s life in four acts, thus highlighting how the stories he told for the stage interweave with his actual life stories. Each episode also uncovers how O’Neill’s work was utterly intertwined with, and galvanized by, the culture and history of his time.

Much is new in this extensively researched book: connections between O’Neill’s plays and his political and philosophical worldview; insights into his Irish upbringing and lifelong torment over losing faith in God; his vital role in African American cultural history; unpublished photographs, including a unique offstage picture of him with his lover Louise Bryant; new evidence of O’Neill’s desire to become a novelist and what this reveals about his unique dramatic voice; and a startling revelation about the release of Long Day’s Journey Into Night in defiance of his explicit instructions. This biography is also the first to discuss O’Neill’s lost play Exorcism (a single copy of which was only recently recovered), a dramatization of his own suicide attempt.

Written with lively informality yet a scholar’s strict accuracy, Eugene O’Neill: A Life in Four Acts is a biography that America’s foremost playwright richly deserves.

作者简介

本书作者罗伯特·M. 道林是康涅狄格中央州立大学英语系教授，也是美国学界公认的奥尼尔研究专家。全书史料详实，叙述生动，完整再现了奥尼尔这位美国戏剧史上的灵魂人物精彩辉煌的艺术创作生涯及其坎坷曲折的现实人生。

Robert M. Dowling is professor of English at Central Connecticut State University. He has published extensively on O’Neill and serves on the board of directors of the Eugene O’Neill Society.