Name: Memoirs (Penguin Modern Classics) (in English)
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Author: Tennessee Williams
ISBN: 9780141189291

portada Memoirs (Penguin Modern Classics) (in English)

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Physical Book

Author

Tennessee Williams

Publisher

Penguin Classics

Year

2007

Language

English

Pages

368

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780141189291

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Memoirs (Penguin Modern Classics) (in English)

Tennessee Williams (Author) · Penguin Classics · Paperback

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Synopsis "Memoirs (Penguin Modern Classics) (in English)"

When Memoirs was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the media--though long self-identified as a gay man, Williams' candour about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use was found shocking in and of itself, and such revelations by America's greatest living playwright were called "a raw display of private life" by The New York Times Book Review. As it turns out, more than thirty years later, Williams' look back at his life is not quite so scandalous as it once seemed; he recalls his childhood in Mississippi and St. Louis, his prolonged struggle as a "starving artist," the "overnight" success of The Glass Menagerie in 1945, the death of his long-time companion Frank Merlo in 1962, and his confinement to a psychiatric ward in 1969 and subsequent recovery from alcohol and drug addiction, all with the same directness, compassion, and insight that epitomize his plays.

Tennessee Williams

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(Misisipi, 1911 - Nueva York, 1983) Thomas Lanier Williams III más conocido por el nombre artístico Tennessee Williams, fue un destacado dramaturgo estadounidense. Licenciado en Filosofía y Letras en la Universidad de Iowa, en 1948 ganó el Premio Pulitzer de teatro por Un tranvía llamado Deseo, y en 1955 por La gata sobre el tejado de zinc. Los críticos del género sostienen que Williams escribía en estilo gótico sureño. Sus personajes se hallan frecuentemente ajenos a los convencionalismos sociales. Su obra es conocida porque muchas fueron llevadas al cine, con guiones del mismo Tennessee Williams en la mayoría de los casos.

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