Godina izdanja: Ostalo
ISBN: Ostalo
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Arthur Miller - After the fall


Bantam books, 1965. godine na 164. strane.


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After the Fall, one of Miller`s more personal plays, is a thinly veiled personal critique centered on Miller`s recent divorce from Marilyn Monroe: the plot takes place inside the mind of Quentin, a New York City Jewish intellectual who decides to reexamine his life in order to determine whether or not he should marry his most recent love, Holga.

The play has been roundly criticised for being too similar to Miller`s actual life because Maggie`s suicide is very similar to that of Miller`s former wife, Monroe. In fact, the feelings of the protagonist, Quentin, are often believed to be Miller`s own reflections about his failed marriage.

The play remains one of Miller`s popular works, attributed in part to the non-linear, often surrealistic nature of the plot and setting; all but the initial and final seconds of the play take place in the protagonist`s brain, which is reflected by a set comprising a single chair before a concentration camp guard tower, which is surrounded by a giant, winding ramp made up of crevices, pits, and abutments. The plot unfolds over a period of time, and due to the non-linear nature of the story, characters and occurrences appear as the protagonist remembers them. Reflecting the nature of the mind, they often disappear and their stories remain unresolved until later in the play, when they spontaneously reappear again.