EUGENE O NEILL

Unha obra magnífica Eugene O'Neill recupera a saga da casa dos átridas, vella peripecia recollida xa na Ilíada de Homero, para trasladala a un país convulso por unha guerra civil. A sociedade puritana e tradicional dos Estados Unidos de América é o trasfondo no que decorre a tráxica caída da casa dos Mannon, outrora poderosa familia abocada á desaparición por mor das vellas feridas que claman vinganza

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Mentre la febre de l’or s’enduu els joves cap a l’Oest, un vell granger del sud es manté aferrat a l’antic pedregar que amb l’esforç de tota una vida ha aconseguit convertir en terra cultivable. Quan

Winner of the 1957 Pulitzer Prize in Drama The definitive edition.Boston Globe Eugene ONeills autobiographical play Long Days Journey into Night is regarded as his finest work. First published by Yale University Press in 1956, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957 and has since sold more than one million copies. This edition includes a Foreword by Harold Bloom, in which he writes: By common consent, Long Days Journey into Night is Eugene ONeills masterpiece. . . . The helplessness of family love to sustain, let alone heal, the wounds of marriage, of parenthood, and of sonship, have never been so remorselessly and so pathetically portrayed, and with a force of gesture too painful ever to be forgotten by any of us.

Cuando en 1940 el dramaturgo Eugene O'Neill perdió a su perro Blemie, decidió escribir este breve texto con el fin de encontrar consuelo para él y su esposa. En forma de testamento y últimas volunta