by Arthur Miller · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141182742
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«Death of a Salesman» is Arthur Miller's play, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (128 pages, in English).
The play follows Willy Loman, an aging salesman who clings to the ideal of success while watching his sons Biff and Happy fail. Between memories and hallucinations, Willy reviews his life; the visit of his sons makes the family tension explode. It is a critique of the obsession with success and the American dream.
The play premiered on Broadway in 1949 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. It is part of the Penguin Modern Classics collection.
For readers of classic American theater and literature students; it is a frequently read work in high schools and modern drama courses.
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.
