EUGENE O NEILL

Unha obra magnífica

"Aquí está el vendedor de hielo" fue escrita a finales de la década de los años treinta, periodo marcado por una incierta situación social, después del hundimiento de la bolsa neoyorquina. "Hughie" fue su ultima obra. Ambos relatos se desarrollan en un ambiente claustrofobico, en el que una serie de personajes aparecen atrapados en sus propias fantasias. Sus sueños ilusorios son producto del fracaso absoluto de las expectativas de los personajes.

Pulitzer Prize-winning drama (1920) by one of America''s greatest playwrights probes diverging personalities and lives of two brothers in love with the same woman.

A captain who loathes the sea reunites with his daughter after a 20-year separation. The daughter's romance with a sailor leads to the revelation of a shameful secret and a test of character. Inexpensive edition of the 1922 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama.

Bold, expressionistic drama describing the fall of a self-proclaimed, plundering monarch of a West Indian island. Powerful work established O'Neill's reputation as one of America's most important dra

of great American playwright''s finest short plays: "Bound East for Cardiff, In The Zone, The Long Voyage Home" and "The Moon of the Caribbees."

The first play tells of an animalistic stoker, who, spurned by a society woman, breaks out of the engine room and goes in search of himself in the "real" world. The second play deals with a mixed marriage, in which the jealous white wife destroys her black husband's chances of a career.

This work is interesting enough for its history. Completed in 1940, Long Day's Journey Into Night is an autobiographical play Eugene O'Neill wrote that--because of the highly personal writing about his family--was not to be released until 25 years after his death, which occurred in 1953. But since O'Neill's immediate family had died in the early 1920s, his wife allowed publication of the play in 1956. Besides the history alone, the play is fascinating in its own right. It tells of the "Tyrones"--a fictional name for what is clearly the O'Neills. Theirs is not a happy tale: The youngest son (Edmond) is sent to a sanitarium to recover from tuberculosis; he despises his father for sending him; his mother is wrecked by narcotics; and his older brother by drink. In real-life these factors conspired to turn O'Neill into who he was--a tormented individual and a brilliant playwright.

Winner of the 1957 Pulitzer Prize in Drama The definitive edition.Boston Globe Eugene ONeills autobiographical play Long Days Journey into Night is regarded as his finest work. First published by Yale University Press in 1956, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957 and has since sold more than one million copies. This edition includes a Foreword by Harold Bloom, in which he writes: By common consent, Long Days Journey into Night is Eugene ONeills masterpiece. . . . The helplessness of family love to sustain, let alone heal, the wounds of marriage, of parenthood, and of sonship, have never been so remorselessly and so pathetically portrayed, and with a force of gesture too painful ever to be forgotten by any of us.

Materias: Prosa, no ficción Editorial: Universidad de León

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