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Eugene O'Neill's America - Desire Under Democracy (Hardcover)
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Eugene O'Neill's America - Desire Under Democracy (Hardcover)
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In the face of seemingly relentless American optimism, Eugene
O'Neill's plays reveal an America many would like to ignore, a
place of seething resentments, aching desires, and family tragedy,
where failure and disappointment are the norm and the American
dream a chimera. Though derided by critics during his lifetime, his
works resonated with audiences, won him the Nobel Prize and four
Pulitzer, and continue to grip theatergoers today. Now noted
historian John Patrick Diggins offers a masterly biography that
both traces O'Neill's tumultuous life and explains the forceful
ideas that form the heart of his unflinching works.
Diggins paints a richly detailed portrait of the playwright's life,
from his Irish roots and his early years at sea to his
relationships with his troubled mother and brother. Here we see
O'Neill as a young Greenwich Village radical, a ravenous autodidact
who attempted to understand the disjunction between the sunny
public face of American life and the rage that he knew was
simmering beneath. According to Diggins, O'Neill mined this
disjunction like no other American writer. His characters burn with
longing for an idealized future composed of equal parts material
success and individual freedom, but repeatedly they fall back to
earth, pulled by the tendrils of family and the insatiability of
desire. Drawing on thinkers from Emerson to Nietzsche, O'Neill
viewed this endlessly frustrated desire as the problematic core of
American democracy, simultaneously driving and undermining American
ideals of progress, success, and individual freedom.
Melding a penetrating assessment of O'Neill's works and thought
with a sensitive re-creation of his life, "Eugene O'Neill'sAmerica"
offers a striking new view of America's greatest playwright--and a
new picture of American democracy itself.
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