" At fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from the real world in which I was terribly uncomfortable. He immediately became my retreat, my cave, my refuge "
Today marks the centenary of the birth of the American writer Tennessee Williams .
Alongside many tributes outside the scene, as a long series of exhibitions celebrates Broadway representing " The milk train does not pass through here," , mounting only leads them countless stages around the country.
more curious representation, the company scheduled for Austin Shakespeare in the city of Austin (Texas), in which the manifold represent the writer imagined end for his play "Summer and Smoke " in the line of the famous author's obsession with the endless rewriting.
" I feel no special regard for the writers, but I inclined to think that what motivates most of them most of the other artists are desperate to find his vocation and to distinguish the truth within the set of lies and evasions that we live "
Little Tom with his mother and his sister Edwina Rose
Thomas Lanier Williams was born on March 26, 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. Second of three children of the marriage between Cornelius Coffin and Edwina Williams, signed his name to his first poems and stories. In 1939 he became " Tennessee" as a way to say thank you to a place where he had spent happy childhood years.
already before the age of twenty years, Williams was a writer, "confirmed ", as he said, by the strong dedication and work. Poet, novelist and playwright, gave the theater its biggest creative endeavors.
"Why write? Because I find life unsatisfactory "
way through the country, Tennessee arrived late 30 to Hollywood, where he was hired as a screenwriter. And although his first script was rejected, he emerged a work, " The Glass Menagerie," which premiered in 1945 in New York with great success. L willing consecration and national and international.
Following this, an even bigger hit in 1947 with the premiere of "A Streetcar Named Desire ( Pulitzer Prize in 1948). When he wrote the play, Williams had in mind Tallulah Bankhead in the role of Blanche Dubois, actress finally played the character on Broadway in 1956.
and other works came after . " Cat on a Hot Tin Roof " (for which he also receive the Pulitzer Prize ), "The Rose Tattoo," "Summer and Smoke", "Suddenly, Last Summer", "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, "" Sweet Bird of Youth "," Night of the Iguana "...
" All my characters are inspired by me. I can not create a character that does not take into "
works portray Tennessee Williams Southern environments for which he spent his life and are populated by characters facing society misfits.
" I think that hatred is one thing, a feeling that can only exist when there is no understanding. Since I am a member of the human race, when he attacked the man's behavior to his fellow obviously I'm including in the attack, at least not human but I consider superior to humanity. Not so. In fact, I can not display a human weakness in the scenario if I do not know myself for getting it "
Williams's characters are aware that living in a corrupt society but not raise the combat, but rather to find a deal impossible.
" All we are civilized people, which means that we are wild at heart but we are able to observe a few rules of civilized behavior "
Because this covenant is with the viewer, the seeking his complicity.
" mistakenly understand my work as an indictment of American moral, not realizing that I write about violence in American life just because I'm not familiar with the company of other countries "
Reason for rejection some critics was the melodramatic tone of his works and characters marked by pathological conditions. However, nobody knew him as transforming the excess and artifice in colloquial language steeped in poetic tension and transforming it into a flow strident simple and memorable.
"I have shown good number of weaknesses and human brutality and, consequently, suffer. This does not mean that I become more aware of my own than any other person of their own. Guilt is universal "
Williams's theater seems to display only questions that raise awareness about our inability to master anything, but no clear answers.
in his theater is not "positive characters " show the way, civic or political, to be followed. The last words of the protagonist of "A Streetcar Named Desire " are revealing: " I have always depended on the kindness of strangers ".
in his theater is not "positive characters " show the way, civic or political, to be followed. The last words of the protagonist of "A Streetcar Named Desire " are revealing: " I have always depended on the kindness of strangers ".
" All my life I have harassed the obsession of desire or love something that is intensely vulnerable position himself, have all the possibilities, but chances of losing what you most want "
Between 1971 and 1975, Tennessee Williams wrote" Memoirs , a relatively linear chronological review, though subject to the whim of whom he writes with pleasure, stopping where he wants and more about facts relating to other emerging fly.
" All good art is indiscreet. Well, I can not assure you that this book is going to be art, but has to be indiscreet, since it's my adult life ... course, these pages could be devoted in its entirety, to discuss the drama, but would not that be a suckling pig? "
wrote some 50 works, of varying length, and worked also on the obsessive rewriting their own songs. The absorption and transformation of texts into new texts would be a constant in it.
"My plays arise from long one-act plays and short stories written earlier that may be years before working on them again and again "
Tennessee Williams won two Tony Awards in 1951 by " The Rose Tattoo" as best playwright and author of the best work. He was also nominated three more times, as the author of the best work in 1956 for "Cat on Hot Tin Roof " in 1962 by " The Night of the Iguana " and, posthumously, in 1999 "Not about Nightingale."
" But it is the act of dying to that fear: it is forgotten. No one will remember, really, that Thomas Lanier Williams, drunk, a little crazy, something writer He was born in the tough city of Columbus, Mississippi, a March 26, 1911, and Tennessee is autobautizó "
The February 25, 1983 we said goodbye, 71 years old, one of the greatest writers in world literature.
" The truth is that, at least for me, Blanche and its creator were interchangeable: they shared the same sensibility, the same insecurity, the same melancholy lust "
(TRUMAN CAPOTE)
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