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William Saroyan (1908–1981)

Autor de La comedia humana

237+ Obras 3,777 Miembros 80 Reseñas 17 Preferidas

Sobre El Autor

An Armenian American with little formal education, Saroyan was a dramatist who disparaged the usual conventions of the form: "Plot, atmosphere, style, and all the rest of it," he wrote, "may be regarded as so much nonsense" (Three Times Three). His plays have been criticized as formless and his mostrar más writing as undisciplined; yet his work is imbued with fondness for the human race and contains an infectious enthusiasm for society's misfits and innocents. Saroyan's dramatic career was launched with My Heart's in the Highlands (1939), a fantasy. The following year, The Time of Your Life (1939) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize---which Saroyan publicly refused on the grounds that commerce had no right to patronize art. This play, undoubtedly Saroyan's one enduring piece, takes place in a waterfront saloon where vivid characters wander in and out to come into contact with the philosophical Joe, a man of unending generosity. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Aumuller, 1940 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117536)

Obras de William Saroyan

La comedia humana (1943) 1,351 copias
Me llamo Aram (1940) 473 copias
El momento de tu vida (1939) 129 copias
The William Saroyan Reader (1958) — Autor — 77 copias
El tigre de Tracy (1951) 72 copias
Madness in the Family (1988) 47 copias
Nena querida (1944) 40 copias
Mama, I Love You (1956) 38 copias
Short Drive, Sweet Chariot (1966) 31 copias
Papa, You're Crazy (1957) 30 copias
Boys and Girls Together (1714) 30 copias
Un tal Rock Wagram (1951) 29 copias
Chance Meetings (1978) 26 copias
My Name Is Saroyan (1983) 24 copias
Places Where I've Done Time (1972) 24 copias
Lo importante es no morir (1963) 23 copias
Obituaries (1978) 20 copias
The Laughing Matter (1953) 14 copias
Razzle Dazzle (1942) 14 copias
Me (1963) 13 copias
The trouble with tigers (1938) 12 copias
The Beautiful People (1941) 10 copias
The tooth and my father (1974) 10 copias
Little Children (1937) 8 copias
Inhale & Exhale (1980) 8 copias
48 Saroyan Stories (1942) 8 copias
Subway Circus (2011) 8 copias
dlekler Cesurdur (2010) 7 copias
An Armenian Trilogy (1986) 6 copias
Saroyan's fables (1941) 6 copias
Why Abstract? (1974) 6 copias
Morris Hirshfield (1975) 5 copias
Once Around the Block (1959) 4 copias
34 More Great Stories (1944) 4 copias
Peace, it's wonderful (1938) 4 copias
Where the bones go (2002) 4 copias
Three Plays 3 copias
Memorias (1996) 3 copias
Tja, Papa Roman (2019) 3 copias
The Hungerers (1939) 2 copias
A Christmas Psalm, 1935 (1935) 2 copias
The Circus [short story] (1986) 2 copias
Births (1983) 2 copias
Don't Go Away Mad (1949) 2 copias
Yetmis Bin Suryani (2004) 1 copia
O assírio 1 copia
Čas tvého života (1999) 1 copia
Human Comedy 1 copia
Radio Play 1 copia
Opera, Opera 1 copia
Yoksul İnsanlar (1990) 1 copia
All titles 1 copia
Obras 1 copia
Nedělní zepelín (1998) 1 copia
Trouble with Tigers (1939) 1 copia

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