![]() ![]() ![]() Cesare was an avid reader and autodidact. His father, Cesare, worked for the manufacturing firm Ganz and spent much of his time working abroad in Hungary, where Ganz was based. ![]() Levi was born in 1919 in Turin, Italy, at Corso Re Umberto 75, into a liberal Jewish family. ![]() His death was officially ruled a suicide, but some, after careful consideration, have suggested that the fall was accidental because he left no suicide note, there were no witnesses, and he was on medication that could have affected his blood pressure and caused him to fall accidentally. Levi died in 1987 from injuries sustained in a fall from a third-story apartment landing. His best-known works include If This Is a Man (1947, published as Survival in Auschwitz in the United States), his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland and The Periodic Table (1975), linked to qualities of the elements, which the Royal Institution named the best science book ever written. He was the author of several books, collections of short stories, essays, poems and one novel. Primo Michele Levi ( Italian: 31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987) was an Italian chemist, partisan, writer, and Jewish Holocaust survivor. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Gibreel and Saladin have been chosen (by whom?) as protagonists in the eternal wrestling match between Good and Evil. So begins The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie's first novel for five years. Gibreel seems to have acquired a halo, while, to Saladin's dismay, his legs grow hairier, his feet turn into hoofs, and there are bumps burgeoning at his temples. A miracle but an ambiguous one, because it soon becomes apparent that curious changes are coming over them. Clinging to each other, singing rival songs, they plunge downward, and are finally washed up, alive, on the snow-covered sands of an English beach. Through the debris of limbs, drinks trolleys, memories, blankets and oxygen masks, two figures fall towards the sea without benefit of parachutes: Gibreel Farishta, India's legendary movie star, and Saladin Chamcha, the man of a thousand voices, self-made self and Anglophile supreme. Just before dawn one winter's morning a hijacked jumbo-jet blows apart high above the English Channel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His mother emerges as one of the most poignant and original female characters in contemporary literature. (" 'Will I have to be fat in the movie?' she asked.") Here is his mother, his muse, locking the kids out of the house after one snow day too many, playing the wry, brilliant commentator on his life until her untimely death from cancer. Here is his oldest sister, Lisa, imploring him to keep her beloved Amazon parrot out of a proposed movie based on his writing. Here is his father dragging his mortified son over to the home of one of the most popular boys in school, a boy possessed of "an uncanny ability to please people," demanding that the boy's parents pay for the root canal that Sedaris underwent after the boy hit him in the mouth with a rock. Here is Sedaris's family in all its odd glory. or the New Yorker, or broadcast on NPR's This American Life) include his best and funniest writing yet. The 27 essays here (many previously published in Esquire, G.Q. This is not to suggest that the author of Me Talk Pretty One Day and other bestselling books has lost his edge. In his latest collection, Sedaris has found his heart. ![]() ![]() ![]() The success dream on the American stage / Harold Clurman. 'Death of a salesman' powerful tragedy / William Hawkins. Morality and the modern drama / Arthur Miller -Īudience spellbound by prize play of 1949 / Robert Garland. Introduction to 'Collected plays' / Arthur Miller. The "salesman" has a birthday / Arthur Miller. Tragedy and the common man / Arthur Miller. 'Death of a salesman' : criticism and analogues. An in-depth introduction by the editor, a chronology, a list of topics for discussion and papers, and a biography The state designer's account, presented in selections from Designing for the Theatre by Jo Mielziner Moody, Tennessee Williams, and Irwin Shaw Analogous works by Eudora Welty, Walter D. General essays on Miller by William Weigand, Allan Seager, and others Critical essays by John Gassner, Ivor Brown, Joseph A. Five articles by Miller on his play, including "tragedy and the Common Man" and his "Introduction to Collected Plays" ![]() Conflicting review about its opening night by Robert Garland, Harold Clurman, Eleanor Clark, and others ![]() This Viking Critical Library edition of Death of a Salesman contains the complete text of the play, typescript facsimiles, and extensive critical and contextual material including: Since it was first performed in 1949, Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about the tragic shortcomings of an American dreamer has been recognized as a milestone of the theatre. ![]() ![]() ![]() James Naremore describes this structure as “a manifestation of that timeless unity Mrs. ![]() The Waves alternates an italicized section with a soliloquy section: the italicized sections describe the course of the sun from dawn to dusk in the narrative past, while the soliloquy sections stage six main characters who take turns and speak in poetic language, often in the present tense. It is “the culmination of her experimental lyric technique, a tour de force in high modernist poetic fiction,” 1 and readers have emphasized the novel’s success in creating a narrative structure that unifies prose and poetry. ![]() Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931) is often considered a representative of modernist hybrid work. ![]() |