by Arthur Miller · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140181555
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«Death of a Salesman» is Arthur Miller's play, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (112 pages, in English).
The play portrays Willy Loman, a 60-year-old travelling salesman who, after 34 years of selling, is discarded by his company. Exhausted and without a future, he confronts the disappointments of his past and family tensions, while the promise of the American dream crumbles. His final decision leaves open the question of whether Loman is a hero or a deluded man.
The play is subtitled «Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem», belongs to the Penguin Twentieth Century Classics series, and won the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award in 1949.
For readers of classic American theatre and students tackling modern drama, with regular reading in high schools.
Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright and essayist in the 20th-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), and A View from the Bridge (1955). He wrote several screenplays, including The Misfits (1961). The drama Death of a Salesman is considered one of the best American plays of the 20th century.
