推销员之死
Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller · 初版 1949 年
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为什么值得读
- 阅历成熟后重读能体会到剧作的精彩
- 呈现出打破地域局限的世界级文学境界
Willy Loman 的血液流淌在我们每一个人的体内。这位推销员的故事——一心想为儿子们争取更多却不知该如何实现，以充满善意的梦想伤害了他们，最终以生命作出补偿——在某种程度上也是我们所有人的故事。正因如此，它成为了现代美国戏剧史上最震撼人心的伟大成功之一。——封底文案 同时收录于：- Arthur Miller's Collected Plays - Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing: 6th edition - [Collected Plays 1944-
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…高中时被逼着读经典名著。除非你心智特别成熟，否则高中读经典基本没啥用；而我那时候显然不成熟。现在重读那些书是一种很奇妙的体验。我记得一年前我带着不可置信的心情重读了《推销员之死》。那是我高中时讨厌透顶的一部戏，但六年之后，我却觉得它写得太绝了。
…forced to read classics in high school. Classics in high school are mostly useless unless you are particularly mature; I was not. Rereading those books now is a bizarre experience. I remember reading Death of a Salesman a year back in a state of disbelief. It was something I remember absolutely hating in high school but six years later, I thought it was brilliant.
嗯，符合这个标准的“高中英语文学课”经典书籍有米勒的《推销员之死》和沃顿的《伊坦·弗洛美》。同样在西方古典范畴里，如果你喜欢歌剧的话，普契尼的《蝴蝶夫人》也棒极了。
Well, some classic "high school English literature class" books that fulfill that criteria are Miller's Death of a Salesman and Wharton's Ethan Frome. Still in the Western classical canon, Puccini's Madame Butterfly is fantastic, if you're into opera.
《推销员之死》。这又是一本你在初中或高中被迫提前阅读的书。当时读起来简直是种折磨；但到了 25 岁重读时，我觉得它好极了。我也…
Death of a Salesman. This is yet another book that you are forced to read prematurely in middle or high school. At the time, it was a frustrating exercise; upon rereading it at age 25, I thought it was fantastic. I also…
…欲罢不能！另外容我说一句，文学这东西是属于全世界的，能开辟新的认知领域，不可能被限制在某一个地方。不过就你提到的语境而言，斯坦贝克的《珍珠》和米勒的《推销员之死》怎么样？
…back for more! And if I may note, literature is a world thing that opens up new domains. No way to limit it to one place. However in your stated context, how about Steinbeck "The Pearl" and Miller "Death of a Salesman"
…太像 40 和 50 年代的美国现实了。容我提醒你，a) 这主要是针对白人中产阶级而言的，b) 即便在白人中产阶级内部，这个梦想也经常无法实现（比如阿瑟·米勒的《推销员之死》）。
…so much like American reality of the 40s and 50s. Let me remind you that a) this was mainly about white middle class, and b) even among the white middle class this dream did not regularly come true ("Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller).
…的故事。我懂你更喜欢哪一种，但并不是所有人都这样。英语课也会让你读很多更近期、更现代的作品，并不是只有莎士比亚。比如我记得《推销员之死》、《1984》和《第五号屠宰场》都是我高中英语课程的一部分。《指环王》现在据说也进了好几个英语教学大纲。各类喜剧（从阿里斯托芬到普拉切特）…
…Story. I get that you prefer the one, but not everybody does. English classes also have you read lots of other more recent and more modern works. It's not exclusively Shakespeare. I remember, for example, Death of a Salesman, 1984, and Slaughterhouse-Five being part of my high school's English curriculum. Lord of the Rings is apparently in several English curricula now. Comedies of all kinds (from Aristophanes to Pratchett)…