EAN: 9780224610735

LONG DAYS JOURNEY INTO NIGHT - EUGENE ONEILL TA...

This is as close as the public will come to an autobiography  although its presentation in play
form will perhaps mislead some potential readers. Written in 1940  now posthumously published 
this autobiographical play shows the famous playwright grappling with the raw material of his
youth and home surroundings. It is starkly realistic  gloomy to the point of desperation  often
dull and formless - but it is a brave attempt to face the implications of a difficult heritage.
These were indeed discouraging:- a swashbuckling Irish father  who had attained a certain
prosperity as a handsome actor  who was given to alternate ??uts of drunken br??g??doce to and
sentimentality  an older brother  of the ne'er de well type  given to drink  whoring and sloth
who showed "Edmund" (the consumptive protagonist of the play- presumably O'Neill himself) a
baffling  Janus-faced love and jealousy  and a mother  worn out both by conflict with these
male characters and a homeless  up-rooted life  who becomes a hopeless drug addict. It is
impossible to say that O'Neill has fashioned a real play out of the Ibaenc??que facts. He has
merely told his story in conversational form  his accustomed medium  devoid- this time of his
poetic language. Certainly this is not stage material. Let us hope the little theatres will not
claim it as their own. Rather it is material for biographers and psychologists  particularly
those seeking clues to genius. For a selected audience  and definitely not for bed- time
reading. (Kirkus Reviews)

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