Author: Arthur Miller
- Fiction
- Tusquets Editores
- ISBN: 9788483834169
- Release Date: 09-30-2012
Synopsis
Marco y Rodolpho, dos hermanos sicilianos huidos de la miseria de su tierra natal, llegan a Nueva York como inmigrantes ilegales y se refugian en la humilde casa del estibador Eddie Carbone. Este, un ser impulsivo, de instintos tan bienintencionados como primarios, vive con su esposa Beatrice y una sobrina, Catherine, una muchacha a la que Eddie quiere proteger obsesivamente del hostil mundo exterior. Entre Catherine y Rodolpho no tarda en surgir una gran atracción, pero los celos y las sospechas comienzan a atormentar a Eddie y le impulsan a tomar un camino sin retorno.
Set on the gritty Brooklyn waterfront, A View from the Bridge follows the cataclysmic downfall of Eddie Carbone, who spends his days as a hardworking longshoreman and his nights at home with his wife, Beatrice, and niece, Catherine. But the routine of his life is interrupted when Beatrice's cousins, illegal immigrants from Italy, arrive in New York. As one of them embarks on a romance with Catherine, Eddie's envy and delusion plays out with devastating consequences.
Editorial Reviews
"[In Arthur Miller's plays] we find the true compassion and catharsis that are as essential to our society as water and fire and babies and air. . . . Miller awakened in me the taste for all that must be-the empathy and love for the least of us, out of which bursts a gratitude for the poetry of his characters and the greatness of their creator."
-Philip Seymour Hoffman, from the Foreword
About the Author
Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915 and studied at the University of Michigan. His plays include All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), A View from the Bridge and A Memory of Two Mondays (1955), After the Fall (1963), Incident at Vichy (1964), The Price (1968), The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972) and The American Clock. He has also written two novels, Focus (1945), and The Misfits, which was filmed in 1960, and the text for In Russia (1969), Chinese Encounters (1979), and In the Country (1977), three books of photographs by his wife, Inge Morath. More recent works include a memoir, Timebends (1987), and the plays The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (1991), The Last Yankee (1993), Broken Glass (1993), which won the Olivier Award for Best Play of the London Season, and Mr. Peter's Connections (1998). His latest book is On Politics and the Art of Acting. Miller was granted with the 2001 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He has twice won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and in 1949 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
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