Arthur Miller Book order (chronological)

Vynikajúci americký spisovateľ a dramatik Arthur Miller pre deti napísal iba jeden jediný, ale jedinečný rozprávkový príbeh Jankina perinka. Hrejivý rodinný príbeh o tom, akým šťastím je dieťa v rodine. Nie je však len o dievčatku a jeho perinke. Je najmä o veciach a vzťahoch, ktoré sú v živote dôležité; o dospievaní a o tom, ako sa z bábätka stáva dievča. A tak trochu je to aj príbeh o autorovi samom. Janka je jeho prvá dcérka Jane, ktorá sa bolestne lúči s milovanou perinkou, lebo sa nelúči iba s ňou, ale aj so svojím detstvom. Z nežných ilustrácií Maje Dusíkovej vyžaruje pokoj a harmónia. Kniha je určená deťom od 3 rokov. V čase, keď Jane spávala prikrytá ružovou perinkou, jej ocko ešte nebol slávny. Vedel a cítil len, že má talent a túžil, aby o tom presvedčil aj iných. Jane pomaly z perinky vyrastala a jej ockovi sa splnil sen: jeho divadelné hry sa hrali na Broadwayi, na slávnych divadelných pódiách. S úspechom prišla aj sláva a na jednej filmovačke sa spoznal a neskôr oženil s najobdivovanejšou herečkou všetkých čias, s Marilyn Monroe. Aj ona mala jeho dcérku Jane rada. Preložila: Zuzana Vilikovská Ilustrovala: Maja Dusíková

Hannas Kuscheldecke, das einzige Kinderbuch des Dramatikers Arthur Miller, erzählt auf intelligente und bewegende Weise eine Geschichte, die jeder in seiner Kindheit erlebt hat.

The only children's book penned by playwright Arthur Miller, Jane's Blanket intelligently and iconically details a touching truth of childhood. The first reprint since its 1963 release makes Arthur Miller's enduring message available to a new generation.

Ein Band, der alle Erzählungen des großen Dramatikers und einfühlsamen Chronisten Amerikas versammelt. In seinen Stücken widmete sich Arthur Miller den großen Themen seiner Zeit, in seinen Stories galt seine Aufmerksamkeit den unauffälligen, intimen Ereignissen im Leben des Einzelnen. »Arthur Miller lebt und atmet in diesen Geschichten … Sie vervollständigen sein Werk. Mehr noch: Sie sind ein fesselndes Selbstporträt.« Jane Smiley

In »A View from the Bridge«, 1955 uraufgeführt (seine endgültige Fassung fand das Drama ein Jahr später in einer Inszenierung von Peter Brook), dramatisiert Arthur Miller eine Geschichte, die er einem New Yorker Hafenarbeiter verdankt und in der es um den Verrat eines italienischen Einwanderers an zwei illegal eingewanderten Verwandten geht. An dieser Geschichte faszinierte Miller besonders das, wie er es nannte, mythische Element. Die »Brücke« des Titels ist die Brooklyn Bridge, die den auf Long Island gelegenen Stadtteil Brooklyn mit der Südspitze Manhattans verbindet. Das Stück war Vorlage für Filme von Luchino Visconti (»Rocco und seine Brüder«) und Sidney Lumet; Dustin Hoffman spielte in einer New Yorker Inszenierung 1965 mit, Scarlett Johannson 2009. Ungekürzte und unbearbeitete Textausgabe in der Originalsprache, mit Übersetzungen schwieriger Wörter am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen.

"R.U.R." (Rossum's Universal Robots) (Czech: "Rossumovi univerzalni roboti") is a science fiction play originally written in the Czech language. It premiered in 1921 and is noted for introducing the term "robot" to the English language. The play begins in a factory that makes artificial people called "robots." Unlike the modern usage of the term, these creatures are closer to the modern idea of androids or even clones, as they can be mistaken for humans and can think for themselves. They seem happy to work for humans, although that changes and a hostile robot rebellion leads to the extinction of the human race. After finishing the manuscript, The author realized that he had created a modern version of the Jewish Golem legend. He later took a different approach to the same theme in War with the Newts, in which non-humans become a servant class in human society. R.U.R is dark but not without hope and was successful in its day in both Europe and the United States. Translation by David Wyllie."

Arthur Miller, Amerikas berühmtester Dramatiker des 20. Jahrhunderts, verbindet analytischen Scharfsinn mit moralischer Überzeugung und höchstem Stilbewusstsein. Seine Theaterstücke, die jetzt erstmals in einer dreibändigen Ausgabe vorliegen, handeln von der Existenznot des Einzelnen, von der Unbarmherzigkeit der Gesellschaft, von der Flüchtigkeit unserer Illusionen. Es sind Stücke, die auch im 21. Jahrhundert weitergespielt werden und deren Wirkung sich stets erneuert. In seinem großen Theateressay, der die Ausgabe seiner ›Stücke‹ in drei Bänden einleitet, denkt Arthur Miller über die Funktion des Theaters in der Gesellschaft, über das Schreiben von Stücken und über die Erwartungen der Zuschauer nach.

A jelentős művészi teljesítmény egyik lényeges meghatározó tulajdonsága, hogy a művek, bármilyen eltérés ellenére, közös jegyeket hordoznak, és egy irányba mutatnak. A valóság különböző arcaival szemben a művész mindig ugyanazzal a nézőponttal fordul. Az egyes darabok mögött egy közös mag rejtőzik, amely az írói alkat és egyéniség egyedi bélyegét hordozza. Arthur Miller drámaírói teljesítménye is ezt a következetességet tükrözi, hiszen minden darabban felfedezhető egy sajátos életfelfogás. A különböző témák és dramaturgiai megközelítések mélyebb összefonódását az író morális szenvedélye adja. Minden darab a morális elkötelezettségből fakad, amely az élet alapvető erkölcsi dilemmáit tárja fel. Miller hangsúlyozza, hogy a tettek következményei éppoly valóságosak, mint maguk a tettek, ám gyakran nem számolunk velük. Minden művében a tettek és következményeik erkölcsi alapú szembesítése zajlik. A dráma bemutathatja a folyamatot a döntéstől a következményekig, vagy a következmények szemszögéből visszatekintve tárja fel a tett indítékait. A két módszer néha összemosódik, gazdagítva ezzel a művek jelentését.

The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman and The Crucible), and Williams’ essay “The World I Live In.” It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared—57 years after its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desireis one of those plays. The story famously recounts how the faded and promiscuous Blanche DuBois is pushed over the edge by her sexy and brutal brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski. Streetcar launched the careers of Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden, and solidified the position of Tennessee Williams as one of the most important young playwrights of his generation, as well as that of Elia Kazan as the greatest American stage director of the ’40s and ’50s.

Miller is an excellent historian...and a fine biographer... [His] artful arrangement of his conclusions...makes the book something of an intellectual thriller.-New York Times Book Review.

Looks at the similarities between politics and acting, reviewing presidents of the twentieth-century and their skill as actors.

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into critical elements and ideas within classic works of literature. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. CliffsNotes on Death of a Salesman shares an intimate glimpse into the dreams and disappointments of an American family. Following the story of Willy Loman, an aging salesman who can't accept change within himself and society, this study guide provides a character list, character map, and character analyses to explore the personalities within Arthur Miller's masterful play. Other features that help you figure out this important work include Classic literature or modern-day treasure—you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.

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In his long career, Arthur Miller has charted some of the most hidden aspects of the American character, and made us recognize ourselves. With Homely Girl, A Life , he turns his attention to a smaller, more intimate, canvas, but one that in its deceptive delicacy still encompasses a vast range of human fears, ambitions, and desires. Janice—the eponymous homely girl—has hated her face ever since she was a child and her mother held up Ivory Snow advertisements to her, saying, "Now that is beauty." Homely she is, but also fiercely herself. Still,it is not until she falls in love with a blind musician that she feels her full nature unfold in this exquisite portrait of a woman finding a language to describe herself. Flanked by two stories also set in Manhattan, "Fame" and "Fitter's Night," Homely Girl, A Life pays homage to a city constantly reinventing itself—and to the classic Miller themes of work, honor, and identity. "Chekhovian . . . deserves praising to the top of the highest skyscraper for its humanity, wit, depth" —A.N. Wilson

"It's moral vision, as well as the Miller voice, which remains as strong and unrelenting as a prophet's, that distinguish Broken Glass." - The New York Times When Sylvia Gellburg, a young Jewish woman living in Brooklyn, becomes partially paralyzed from the waist down, her husband Phillip is shocked: what could've caused this sudden condition? The answer is Kristallnacht, the horrific, anti-Semitic event occurring halfway around the world. As the Gellburgs reckon with this pogrom and with the breakdown of their own marriage, a terrifying thought emerges: will the Jewish people ever be able to avoid persecution? Broken Glass is one of Miller's most moving and personal works, touching on themes of Jewish identity and anti-Semitism, winning him the Olivier Award for Best New Play in 1994. This Methuen Drama Student Edition is edited by Ambika Singh, and Nupur Tandon, with commentary and notes that explore the play's production history (including excerpts from an interview with director David Thacker,) as well as the dramatic, thematic and academic debates that surround it.

Obsahuje devět kratších próz různého charakteru.

Second volume of plays in the reissued Arthur Miller Collection

Půvabná novelka, kde na pár stránkách proletíte životem hlavní hrdinky na pozadí historických událostí.

Die Kurzgeschichten von Arthur Miller zeichnen sich durch eine breite Themenvielfalt aus, von autobiografischen Kindheitserlebnissen bis hin zu berühmten Erzählungen wie ›Misfits‹. Sie reflektieren Millers persönliche Erfahrungen, darunter seine Beziehung zu Marilyn Monroe und seine Zeit auf einer Marinewerft während des Zweiten Weltkriegs.

Book by Amnesty International

In Arthur Millers sozialkritischem Drama „Ein Blick von der Brücke“ versteckt der Hafenarbeiter Eddie Carbone seine illegalen Vettern aus Sizilien. Als sich einer von ihnen in seine Nichte Catherine verliebt, führt Eddies Eifersucht zu einem Verrat und schließlich zu seinem tragischen Ende. Die neue Übersetzung bietet einen kraftvollen Dialog, der das Werk aktuell hält.

Psychologisches Meisterstück über Korruption. SW: Drama.

Text o Karlu Čapkovi, který přednesl Arthur Miller na zahájení mezinárodní konference o české literatuře XX. století v New Yorku v březnu roku 1990.

Inspirací k napsání této hry byly pravděpodobně dvě události: jednak odhalení dlouho používaných odposlouchávacích zařízení v hotelu Mayflower ve Washingtonu, jednak setkání s obdobnou realitou ve východní Evropě 70. let minulého století. Postavy tuší, že by mohly být odposlouchávány, a tato skutečnost ovlivňuje jejich chování, jednání a postoje. Příběh je údajně zasazen do domu na Hradčanském náměstí v Praze, který obýval spisovatel Jiří Mucha, jehož Miller několikrát navštívil. Exilové vydání s doslovem Christophera Bigsbyho. Grafická úprava Věra Držmíšková. Obálku s použitím fotografie Ivana Kyncla navrhla Barbora Munzarová.

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 volume contains four of the most important and famous plays of the American theatre. All were written by Arthur Miller within a ten-year period which began with his first Broadway hit in 1947: 'With the production of All My Sons,' wrote Brooks Atkinson in the New York Times, 'the theatre has acquired a genuine new talent.' This hit was followed by an even greater Death of a Salesman. 'A great play of our day', wrote the New York Herald Tribune and the play has gone on to become the classic American tragedy of Willy Loman, a salesman who becomes disillusioned with the American dream. The Crucible(1953) was produced during the McCarthy era and became a parable of the witch-hunting practises of a government rooting out Communists. A View from the Bridge(1955) concerns the lives of longshoremen in the Brooklyn waterfront and has remained one of Miller's most produced plays. A Memory of Two Mondays, a one-act play, was written as a companion piece to A View from the Bridge. "The greatest American dramatist of our age" (Evening Standard)

A story of four lost souls - the beautiful Roslyn who has never belonged to anyone or anthything, and three other misfits who roam the open land existing on the little money made from riding in rodeos - who meet in Reno to discover that freedom has its price, and the heart its rules.

In "Danger: Memory!" Two contrasting but thematically related one-act plays, I Can't Remember Anything and Clara, are concerned with remembrance. The first play portrays the shared and disputed recollections of two elderly friends, and Clara dramatizes the resistance to brutal present-day fact when a young woman's father speaks with a detective investigating her murder. Like all of Miller's plays, Danger: Memory! holds the powerful emotional charge and social perceptions associated with his work while reaching for one of the fundamental issues of mankind, the selective amnesia of the past.

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 Salesmanand 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.

Une histoire de quatre âmes perdues - la belle Roslyn qui n'a jamais appartenu à personne ni à rien, et trois autres marginaux qui errent dans la nature en vivant de l'argent gagné dans des rodéos - qui se rencontrent à Reno pour découvrir que la liberté a un prix et que le cœur a ses règles.

Ein erschütterndes Drama des Holocausts – und die bemerkenswerte, bewegende Geschichte des Frauenorchesters von Auschwitz. Paris, 1942. Fania Fénelon, eine beliebte jüdische Nachtclubsängerin, wird von den besetzenden Deutschen verhaftet. In einem überfüllten Güterwagen nach Auschwitz geschickt, ihrer Haare beraubt, mit einer Identifikationsnummer tätowiert, ausgehungert und harter Arbeit unterworfen, verliert sie alle Spuren ihres früheren Selbst. Doch ihr Leben im Lager ändert sich dramatisch, als sie in das Frauenorchester aufgenommen wird, ein verzweifeltes kleines Ensemble, das die Gefangenen zur Arbeit marschiert und Konzerte für die deutschen hohen Herren gibt. Unter der Leitung von Alma Rosé, einer streng ehrgeizigen deutsch-jüdischen Dirigentin, die weiß, dass ihr Job eine Frage von Leben und Tod ist, müssen Fania und ihre Mitmusikerinnen dem Horror, der um sie herum geschieht, ins Auge sehen und sich gleichzeitig anstrengen, Schönheit inmitten der Verzweiflung zu schaffen.

A collection of Arthur Miller's thoughts on theatre, politics and society spanning some 25 years. It includes 23 interviews which illustrate Miller's developing view on the theatre, including such topics as the nature of tragedy, what makes plays endure and the theatre in Britain, Russia and the USA. His thoughts confirm his belief in the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

In a building slated for imminent demolition, two brothers, long estranged, reunite to sell off their family's possessions. In short time the transaction draws in one man's wife and an ancient but still wily furniture dealer. And a crowded attic becomes the setting for an acrid, funny, and moving inquest into the wounds of family, the allure of the disposable, and the nature of human failure.

Based on a true story, Arthur Miller's play All My Sonswas his first major success, a moving exploration of denial, guilt, social responsibility and the falsehood of the American Dream. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Christopher Bigsby.In Joe and Kate Keller's family garden, an apple tree - a memorial to their son Larry, lost in the Second World War - has been torn down by a storm. But his loss is not the only part of the family's past they can't put behind them. Not everybody's forgotten the court case that put Joe's partner in jail, or the cracked engine heads his factory produced which caused it and dropped twenty-one pilots out of the sky. All My Sonsis a moving, powerful drama of the ethics of profiteering and family, and the first great play from one of the finest playwrights of the twentieth century.If you enjoyed All My Sons, you might also like Euripides' Medea and Other Plays, available in Penguin Classics.

Jew is only the name we give to that stranger. Each man has his Jew; it is the other. And the Jews have their Jews. Arthur Miller's largely forgotten masterpiece, Incident at Vichy is a prescient examination of the evil that exists in us all, inspired by a real-life incident in France in which a Gentile gave a Jew his identity pass during a check, which would have resulted in the Jew otherwise being sent to a concentration camp. This Methuen Drama Student Edition of the play includes commentary and notes by Joshua Polster, Emerson College, US, which investigate the politics of the play in the context of the African-American civil rights movement happening at the time; the Vietnam War; The House Committee on Un-American Activities; and the murder of Kitty Genovese, as well as exploring Miller's own relationships that were central to the play including with psychoanalyst Dr Rudolf Loewenstein, his wife Inge Morath and his friend Elia Kazan.

Povídka známého amerického dramatika a spisovatele o malé holčičce Janě, která měla ráda svou hebkou růžovou přikrývku, ale pak se s ní musela jednou rozloučit, protože byla malá a roztrhaná. Po čase si při pohledu na ni uvědomuje, jak vyrostla a jak zatím uběhl čas. Nebrání proto ptáku, který pokrývku nalezl na okně, a tahá z ní nitě na své hnízdo. Takto přinese ještě jednou užitek ptáku.

Edward Albee: The American DreamJack Richardson: Gallows HumourMurray Schisgal: The TypistsArthur Miller: Incident at Vichy

Dej tohoto diela sa odohráva v zime, v kraji „holandských dolín“, ktoré sa v čase zimy menia z krásnych rozkvitnutých lúk na nehostinnú tmavú pustatinu. Toto ročné obdobie rovnako ako na krajinu pôsobí aj na ľudí.

E.O´Neill: Ľadár prichádza, T. Wilder - Iba o vlások, T. Williams - Kráľovská cesta, A. Miller - Skúška ohňom

Divadelní hra. Celým svým rámcem navozuje situaci ryze politickou. Konfrontace obětí s nacistickými katy tu však tvoří pouze předpoklad k vyhranění a ozvláštnění lidské mentality, jež je nucena uvědomit si samu sebe v katastrofální chvíli. Incidentem ve Vichy autor organicky pokračuje ve svém studiu člověka jako jedince a ve snaze poznat jeho imanentní vlastnost - zlo v člověku dřímající.

'Much like Mr. Miller, Quentin is a witness to alarming public and personal catastrophes: the stock market crash, the Holocaust, the McCarthy witchhunts and the self-destruction of a show business idol to whom he is married.' NEW YORK TIMES Haunted by past romantic failures, Quentin, a New York City Jewish intellectual, retreats into his mind as he debates marrying for a third time: as he revisits past loves and losses, his mind and memory fragments under philosophical questions; are our failures really just our own? Or is possible to hide away from the mistakes of the past? One of Miller's most personal plays, After the Fall takes place almost entirely inside the mind of the play's protagonist, who is often read as a stand-in for the playwright himself. Touching on themes of the Holocaust, McCarthyism and inherited sin, the play is one of the most discussed within Miller's canon. This Methuen Drama Student Edition is edited by Ramón Espejo-Romero, with commentary and notes that explore the play's production history (including excerpts from an interview with Michael Blakemore, former Associate Director of the Royal National Theatre,) as well as the dramatic, thematic and academic debates that surround it.

Hra se odehrává na policejním komisařství ve francouzském městě Vichy. Je rok 1942.

Známa divadelná hra Arthura Millera, ktorej hlavnou postavou a zároveň rozprávačom je Quentin - asi 40-ročný nadaný právnik, plný pochybností a neistoty. Počas svojho rozprávania rozoberá svoj život, detstvo, dospelosť i vzťahy. V hre sa prejavujú autobiografické rysy a napríklad aj autorove skúsenosti z manželstva s Marilyn Monroe...

Nová, do značné míry autobiografická hra, děj se odehrává v mysli ústřední postavy, v jejích myšlenkách. Na scénu staví asi čtyřicetiletého právníka, jenž se rozborem nejvýznamnějších skutečností svého života snaží dopátrat se pravdy o své vině na tom, co udělal on i společnostkolem něho. Přeložili Luba a Rudolf Pellarovi za jazykové spolupráce Hildy Lassové.

Arthura Millera pozná naša verejnosť ako pokrokového amerického dramatika, autora vynikajúcich hier Smrť obchodného cestujúceho, Všetci moji synovia, Pohľad z mosta a Skúška ohňom. Mustangy je prvá autorova významnejšia próza, neskôr mu slúžila za podklad pre filmový scenár. Nakrútili podľa nej film, v ktorom úlohu Roslyny zabrala vtedajšia Millerova žena Marilyn Monroeová a v úlohe Gaya vystúpil známy americký herec Clark Gable. Po skončení filmu sa Millerovo manželstvo rozpadlo. Spomíname to preto, lebo v bohatej symbolike tohto diela, ktoré má aj isté autobiografické črty, šlo aj o problémy tohto manželstva. No spoločenská symbolika tejto knižky má oveľa širší dosah. Na osude vymierajúcich krásnych slobodných mustangov i na osudoch slobodumilovných a pre tento svet, v ktorom sa všetko premenilo „na svinstvá a na doláre“, nesúcich cowboyov Miller s veľkou poéziou a s hlbokým pohľadom kritického spisovateľa zobrazuje tragické a temné stránky svojej spoločnosti. Dielo je písané zvláštnym novátorským štýlom, vedome ovplyvneným filmovou technikou či filmovým videním dnešného moderného človeka. Čitateľovi akiste nadlho ostanú v pamäti – popri autorových hlbokých myšlienkach – aj živé opisy cowboyskej krčmy, rodea a najmä dramatického lovu na mustangy.

5 her amerického dramatika: Všichni moji synové (1947) — Smrt obchodního cestujícího (1949) — Zkouška ohněm (1953; později jako Čarodějky ze Salemu) — Vzpomínka na dva pondělky (1955) — Pohled z mostu (1955). Dobová anotace: Ve svazku jsou obsaženy všechny dosud tiskem vyšlé divadelní hry soudobého amerického dramatika, jenž jimi i u nás vyvolal nejživější zájem odvahou a citlivostí, s níž vniká do problematiky člověka a společnosti naší doby. Byť i byl nucen svou situací – jak řekl sám – „individuálního podnikatele, který nabízí své zboží nepřátelskému trhu“ k určitým ústupkům a nemá také zatím plnou odvahu k revolučnímu řešení, přece je svými názory a cíli uměleckými i společenskými blízký cítění socialistického člověka. Předmluva František Vrba. 20 s. fot. příl.

This book documents the making of the legendary film The Misfits (1961). Directed by the Hollywood auteur John Huston, it starred three of the most charismatic actors of all time - Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift. Its script was composed by Arthur Miller, one of America's greatest playwrights and Marilyn's husband. As part of the promotional strategy for the film, the Magnum photographic agency was given exclusive access to the shoot. Nine of its most famous photographers - including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Eve Arnold and Elliott Erwitt - covered the production, both on and off the set. 200 of their pictures are reproduced in rich duotone, providing both a fascinating documentary of the making of a film and an intimate portrait of its stars. The photographs are paralleled with an essay by the Editor-in-Chief of the established film magazine Cahiers du cinéma , Serge Toubiana, in which he recounts the tragic and triumphant story of the film that was to become Monroe and Gable's swansong. The book also contains a revealing interview between Toubiana and Arthur Miller, in which Miller discusses the making of the film, the troubled relationships between the stars (including his own with Monroe) and the fascinating background to the photographs.

Powerful, passionate and frighteningly relevant, the drama of Arthur Miller deals in the hard currency of 'social' realism and tragedy. All My Sons (1947), which brought Miller his first major success, is a merciless exposure of wartime profiteering and the capitalist ethic. The ideological conflict of father and son is a compelling one, and points to the way Miller develops his later drama, where social issues are tempered and tautened by the theme of personal disintegration. Eddie, the her of A View From the Bridge (1955), is an illiterate longshoreman. His inexorable progress towards self-discovery and fall stirs emotions with the same painful intensity as the play jolts the intellect.

Hexenjagd/Der Tod des Handlungsreisenden - Zwei Stücke - bk179; Fischer Verlag; Arthur Miller; pocket_book; 1976