David Mamet

Los ensayos contenidos en Los tres usos del cuchillo actúan como un elocuente recordatorio de que las vidas privadas se componen de pequeñas escenas de tragedia y comedia que sólo tienen sentido como parte de una obra dramatica que es la propia biografia en su conjunto. Lleno de toques autobiograficos, David Mamet proporciona en este libro las claves para detectar el teatro tramposo y autocomplaciente que defiende la sociedad mediatica occidental. En su conjunto, Los tres usos del cuchillo es una llamada al arte y a las armas, un manifiesto que nos recuerda el poder singular de la obra dramatica para mantenernos sanos, cuerdos y humanos.

If theatre were a religion, explains David Mamet in his opening chapter, many of the observations and suggestions in this book might be heretical. As always, Mamet delivers on his promise: in Theatre, the acclaimed author of Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed the Plow, calls for nothing less than the death of the director and the end of acting theory. For Mamet, actors are either good or they are non-actors, and good actors generally work best without the interference of a director, however well-intentioned. Issue plays, political correctness, method actors, impossible directions, Stanislavksy, and elitists all fall under Mamets critical gaze. To students, teacher, and directors, who crave a blast of fresh air in a world that can be insular and fearful of change, Theatre throws down a gauntlet that challenges everyone to do better, including Mamet himself.From iconic and idiosyncratic director and playwright David Mamet, a mischievous manifesto designed to defrock the high priests and challenge the holy bibles of the theatre world.

Mike Hodgeveteran of the Great War, big shot of the Chicago Tribune medium fryprobably shouldnt have fallen in love with Annie Walsh. But then maybe the guys who killed Annie Walsh shouldnt have messed with Mike Hodge In Chicago, David Mamet has created a bracing, kaleidoscopic page-turner that roars through the Windy Citys underground on its way to a thunderclap of a conclusion. Here is not only his first novel in more than two decades, but the book he has been building up to for his whole career. Mixing some of his most brilliant fictional creations with actual figures of the era (among them Al Capone), suffused with trademark Mamet Speak, richness of voice, pace and brio, and exploring--as no writer can--questions of honor, deceit, revenge and devotion, Chicago is that rarest of literary creations: a book that combines spectacular elegance of craft with a kinetic wallop as fierce as the February wind gusting off Lake Michigan.

Mamet no para. Su output es sorprendente. Y no lo son menos sus logros, reconocidos con premios como el Pulitzer; patentes en obras como Glengarry Glen Ross, Perversidad sexual en Chicago, Oleanna o Edmond; en esplendidos guiones cinematograficos como Hoffa, Los intocables o El cartero siempre llama dos veces; o en sus propias peliculas: Juego de emociones, Las cosas cambian, Departamento de Homicidios... Se gano un lugar en el teatro en los setenta, uno en el cine en los ochenta; en los noventa va y viene desbordando firmeza y claridad en sus modos y convicciones; mas hoy sus ultimas, ultimas palabras seran una confesion: No soy nadie mas que aquel muchachito, aquel estudiante inseguro que por fin ha dado con una idea en la que puede creer y que se siente que, a menos que se aferre a ella y le dedique la vida, estara perdido. Otto Minera

David Mamet hace un análisis del funcionamiento de la industria cinematográfica, denunciando a los productores y ensalzando a los nombres que no salen en los créditos: peluqueros, electricistas, maquilladores, etc. Con su fino sentido del humor, este creador iconoclasta pone en tela de juicio el papel de la critica cinematografica contemporanea y el fenomeno de la audiencia. Un titulo recien editado en Estados Unidos que, de forma simultanea, Alba Editorial pone al alcance del lector español.

A big-shouldered, big-trouble thriller set in mobbed-up 1920s Chicago-a city where some people knew too much, and where everyone should have known better-by the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of The Untouchables and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Glengarry Glen Ross. Mike Hodge-veteran of the Great War, big shot of the Chicago Tribune, medium fry-probably shouldn't have fallen in love with Annie Walsh. Then, again, maybe the man who killed Annie Walsh have known better than to trifle with Mike Hodge. In Chicago, David Mamet has created a bracing, kaleidoscopic page-turner that roars through the Windy City's underground on its way to a thunderclap of a conclusion. Here is not only his first novel in more than two decades, but the book he has been building to for his whole career. Mixing some of his most brilliant fictional creations with actual figures of the era, suffused with trademark "Mamet Speak," richness of voice, pace, and brio, and exploring-as no other writer can-questions of honor, deceit, revenge, and devotion, Chicago is that rarest of literary creations: a book that combines spectacular elegance of craft with a kinetic wallop as fierce as the February wind gusting off Lake Michigan.

In a terrifyingly short time, a male college instructor and his female student descend from a discussion of her grades into a modern reprise of the Inquisition. Innocuous remarks suddenly turn damning. Socratic dialogue gives way to heated assault. And the relationship between a somewhat fatuous teacher and his seemingly hapless pupil turns into a fiendishly accurate X ray of the mechanisms of power, censorship, and abuse.

La direcció d'una agència immobiliària proposa una competició als seus treballadors: qui vengui més guanyarà un Cadillac, el segon rebrà un joc de ganivets de cuina, la resta seran acomiadats. S'esta

En 1915, una joven obrera fue asesinada en Atlanta, Georgia. Se llamaba Mary Phagan, y trabajaba en la National Pencil Factory. El director de la fábrica era Leo Frank, un judío neoyorkino. Frank fue acusado del crimen y llevado a juicio. A partir de esta historia real David Mamet construye una agil y solida novela, que entra de manera contundente en el corazon de los conflictos etnicos y religiosos que atraviesan la sociedad norteamericana y nuestro tiempo mas actual y contemporaneo. Protestantes contra catolicos y judios, blancos contra negros, negros contra judios. Una red de tensiones que atrapa tanto al protagonista del relato como a los lectores que se asoman a sus paginas.