Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays, 1944-2000
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (900 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0670893145 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 332 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Nonetheless, this is a welcome companion volume to Miller's Theater Essays, illuminating the fundamental beliefs that underpin his activism as well as his art. . (Oct.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. Editor Centola does not consistently provide dates for the essays or identify the publications in which they appeared. Yet he has never succumbed to utopian notions of human and political perfectibility. Deeply influenced by the radical culture of the 1930s and by his youth during the depression, Miller has always been firmly on the political left; there are several references to his brush with McCarthyism in the 1950s, and "The Battle of Chicago" recounts his experiences as an anti-Vietnam War delegate at the 1968 Democratic Convention. From Publishers Weekly The distinguished playwright's personal dignity and decency resonate throughout this low-key but affecting collection. Dismay at m
"Insight in the real man--Arthur Miller" according to FB. This gives books gives you tiny glints of insight into the ideas and workof the great playwright. Nothing monumental. But little steps that help onealong the way.. history coming alive I read his first essay about Brooklyn on the NYT books site and had to buy the book. Miller captures the past while avoiding nostalgia and bitterness towards the present, a very hard trick to master. The Depression really comes alive in his books, as does the immediacy of the Communis. Not what I though Bethanie Frank I enjoyed the essays that dealt with his life and his experiences in the theatre. The politically based essays aren't anything that I am interested in.
For some fifty years now, Arthur Miller has been not only America's premier playwright, but also one of our foremost public intellectuals and cultural critics. Spanning the second half of the twentieth century, Echoes Down the Corridor takes us on a whirlwind tour of modern history, as Miller captures the frenzied spirit of our schizophrenic age: the Holocaust and the Nazi war crime trials; the depredations of McCarthyism and "The Night Ed Murrow Struck Back"; Vietnam and a firsthand report on the 1968 "Battle of Chicago"; Watergate and the failed Nixon presidency. Here is Arthur Miller, the brilliant social and political commentator - but here, too, Miller the literary critic (on Mark Twain, Ibsen and Tennessee Williams); the Swiftian satirist ("Let's Privatize Congress") ; the world traveler (with his wife Inge Morath at the Opera House in Tashkent, with Harold Pinter in Turkey, Nelson Mandela in South Africa, and "Lucky" Luciano in Sicily). Echoes Down the Corridor gathers together a dazzling array of more than forty previously uncollected essays and works of reportage, from "Belief in America" (1944), which recounts Miller's experiences during the Second World War , to the "The Crucible in History", his 1999 Massey lecture at Harvard, published here for the first time. Giving a rare glimpse of the private man behind the internationally renowned pu