If at the time I included in this blog great modern playwrights, of those whose work has become classic since the XNUMXth century, such as Samuel Beckett o Tennessee WilliamsI couldn't help bringing Eugene O'Neill here as well.
Because he was precisely the pioneer of those plays made brilliant transcendental narratives for our time, eventually led to diffusion as works of consumer literature beyond the stage.
With that vitola of existential uprooting (typical of great chroniclers made novelists or playwrights), a detachment already established from the family nucleus and prolonged during his youth, Eugene ended up returning from those typical hells of the paths of perdition.
The curious thing about these destinies obscured by circumstances is the paradoxical sensation of the lucidity with which their protagonists are touched to end up narrating the essence of the soul.
Top 3 recommended books by Eugene O'Neill
Long journey into the night
The impression of this work on the boards has to be overwhelming. From his crude life odyssey, Eugene transferred to the only day in which the plot takes place, a synthesis of lives as memories that fly over any room, making past, present and future a single day, irremissibly darkened as on the last day of Christ on earth.
Maybe that's what it's about, a presentation of the everyday ecce homo that was Eugene with his mother, brother and father. And in him we find the fragility in which we all live, the tightrope we move on. Mary could be the helm mother, that feminine personality that balances everything, that restores everything with her devotion to family. But coping with tragedy is never easy. And resilience is sometimes a living room ornament.
We are in the summer of 1912. Each of the members of the Tyrone family stands in their corner, all of them ready to face the wrath of the tragic by punishing themselves above all ... The perfect work of Eugene O'Neill that he downloads an overwhelming depth about each protagonist in a disturbing contextualization due to their proximity, with that disheartening certainty that life can only be pain.
Beyond the horizon
It is about delving into the feeling of the utopian of living, of the dissatisfaction per se of the human condition. Between the ambitions and drives that lead to the human being, the emptiness stands as an undeniable sensation in front of the unattainable of the final objectives, especially in the emotional part as an exponent of our internal forum.
Two young brothers and friends, heirs to a farm, dispute the love of young Ruth. When Ruth decides on young Robert, her brother Andrew decides to embark and leave the family. Thus begins a drama that explores the internal drives and the moral error of the characters, the tragedy of the artist, and of all men, whose unattainable dreams lie beyond the horizon. The play, worthy of the Pulitzer Prize for Theater in 1920, it was a hit on Broadway, and continues to be performed today.
Last Will and Testament Of A Most Distinguished Dog
A great example of the enormous sensitivity of the author. Writing a text of this magnitude for your pet manifests that colorful impressionist of Eugene O'Neill's soul, unleashed towards the greatest release of emotions polarized between the vivid range of memories and the dark tone of regret.
When the playwright Eugene O'Neill lost his dog Blemie in 1940, he decided to write this short text in order to find comfort for himself and his wife. In the form of a testament and last wills, O'Neill imagines the memories and thoughts of his faithful friend in his last days, from which he sees death coming with dignity and serenity, only concerned about how it will affect his masters. A moving and fun elegy that will serve as an inspiration for every human and an epitaph for every well-loved dog.
