A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

G. B. Piranesi is one of the most inventive artists of the eighteenth century. The Carceri, or Prisons, are a set of etchings believed by many to be Piranesi's most original work. The extraordinary evocative power of the Carceri has fascinated many writers. Some have interpreted the Carceri as dreams, as nightmares, as disturbing allegories of human life. In this book, mostly through an analysis of the Latin quotations contained in the etchings, it is argued that Piranesi grants a metaphorical meaning to the Carceri in order to 'imprison' those he saw as obstructing the Arts and threatening his own freedom.
G. B. Piranesi E uno dei piU geniali artisti del Settecento. Le Carceri sono una serie di incisioni, da molti ritenuta la sua opera piU originale. Con il loro straordinario potere evocativo le Carceri hanno affascinato numerosi scrittori. Molti ne hanno parlato come di sogni, di incubi, di inquietanti allegorie della vita umana. Qui, soprattutto attraverso l'analisi delle citazioni latine contenute nell'opera, si sottolinea come Piranesi faccia un uso metaforico delle Carceri tra l'altro per 'imprigionare' chi, secondo il suo parere, ostacolava le Arti, minacciando la sua stessa dignitA di libero artista.

Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, where his grandfather was the episcopal clergyman. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company. He stayed there for two years, spending the evenings writing. He entered the University of Iowa in 1938 and completed his course, at the same time holding a large number of part-time jobs of great diversity. He received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 for his play Battle of Angels, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and 1955. Among his many other plays Penguin have published The Glass Menagerie (1944), A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Summer and Smoke (1948), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Camino Real(1953), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Orpheus Descending (1957), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), Period of Adjustment (1960), The Night of the Iguana (1961), The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963; revised 1964) and Small Craft Warnings (1972). He died in 1983.

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ISBN 13	9780822210894
ISBN 10	0822210894
Title	A Streetcar Named Desire
Author	Tennessee Williams
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Binding type	Paperback
Publisher	Dramatists Play Service
Year published	1952-12-01
Number of pages	72
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