具體描述
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Arthur Miller.'I have always depended on the kindness of strangers'Fading southern belle Blanche DuBois is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley Kowalski. Eventually their violent collision course causes Blanche's fragile sense of identity to crumble, threatening to destroy her sanity and her one chance of happiness.Tennessee Williams's steamy and shocking landmark drama, recreated as the immortal film starring Marlon Brando, is one of the most influential plays of the twentieth century.Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was born in Columbus, Mississippi. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company. He stayed there for two years, spending the evenings writing. He received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 for his play Battle of Angels, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and 1955. Among his many other plays Penguin have published The Glass Menagerie (1944), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), The Night of the Iguana (1961), and Small Craft Warnings (1972).If you enjoyed A Streetcar Named Desire, you might like The Glass Menagerie, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'Lyrical and poetic and human and heartbreaking and memorable and funny'Francis Ford Coppola, director of The Godfather'One of the greatest American plays'Observer
用戶評價
##原版很好看，網上找的中譯本糟透瞭，以後盡量都看原版。
評分##Blanche DuBois這個角色太經典 Sick people have such deep, sincere attachments....Who ever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers....
評分##Tennessee關於nice people的定義讓人動容，他說他自己ashamed to say， 其實就是最簡單純粹的，反對過多闡釋，反對臉譜化，將戲劇還原於最原本的生活衝突。這本書是我最近最無法自拔的一本，世間有很多看似不閤理的存在，思考如何人性地對待這種存在，並且盡可能融洽地與之共存，在其宿命性的自我毀滅之前如何去做點什麼，永遠是我腦中長久以來遭反復證明又不得要領的一個命題。
評分##徹底改變人生。
評分##徹底改變人生。
評分##All insanity derives from unquenchable greed and sentiment,Stanley's subtle regretion is definitely the best ending.
評分##“你無法不愛新奧爾良這些多雨的下午，它們如此漫長，一個小時不再是一個小時，而是滴落在你手心的一小片永恒。”
評分##原本以為劇本這種東西就是用來演戲劇拍電影的，現在看來白字黑字上對白的張力或許更甚一籌，畢竟有更多想象和模擬人物的空間
評分##All insanity derives from unquenchable greed and sentiment,Stanley's subtle regretion is definitely the best ending.
