[lit-ideas] Re: Successor to Arthur Miller?
- From: John Wager <johnwager@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:12:03 -0600
The most obvious candidate would be David Mamet. He has even written on
similar themes; Miller's DofS is very similar in some respects to "
Glengarry Glen Ross <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104348/>. Both try to
elevate the ordinary to the level of fastidious attention, but Mamet's
characters are much more un-likeable than Miller's.
Harold Hungerford wrote:
> From a dinner-table conversation: with the death of Arthur Miller, is
>there anyone now living and writing in English with Miller's kind of
>commanding stature?
>
>I can think offhand of Updike. How can there not be anyone else?
>
>As a help, there are seven living Nobel laureates who write/wrote in
>English: Coetzee, Naipaul, Walcott, Gordimer, Soyinka, and Bellow. Only
>Bellow is American. (Miller, of course, never received the Nobel --
>part of a long illustrious lineage of non-winners who included Tolstoy
>(whose omission is absolutely unforgivable), Twain, James, Lawrence,
>Joyce, Williams, Frost, Nabokov, Borges; the listing of the laureates
>is just for a start.)
>
>Ideas?
>
>
>Harold Hungerford
>Santa Rosa, California
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------
>To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off,
>digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
>
>
>
------------------------------------------------------------------
To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off,
digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
Other related posts:
