Wallace Shawn
Autore di My Dinner With André: Screenplay
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: MDCarchives
Opere di Wallace Shawn
Four Plays: A Thought in Three Parts, Marie and Bruce, Aunt Dan and Lemon, the Fever (1997) 30 copie
André Gregory & Wallace Shawn: 3 Films (My Dinner with André / Vanya on 42nd Street / A Master Builder) (2015) — Actor — 5 copie
Nachtgedanken 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Actor's Book of Contemporary Stage Monologues: More Than 150 Monologues from More Than 70 Playwrights (1987) — Collaboratore — 178 copie
The Addams Family 2 [2021 film] — Actor — 36 copie
Young Sheldon: The Complete Second Season — Actor — 17 copie
Young Sheldon: The Complete Third Season — Actor — 8 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1943-11-12
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
England, UK - Istruzione
- The Putney School
Harvard College
Oxford University - Attività lavorative
- actor
- Relazioni
- Shawn, William (father)
Shawn, Allen (brother)
Eisenberg, Deborah (companion) - Organizzazioni
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 2006)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama (2005)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1997)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 20
- Opere correlate
- 43
- Utenti
- 1,186
- Popolarità
- #21,675
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 22
- ISBN
- 60
- Lingue
- 4
- Preferito da
- 1
The scope of Shawn's meditation is global, although he inserts his personal situation and feelings. While it concerns what others might call "social justice," he uses the simpler and more shopworn "morality." He regards the imperialist domination and ecocide that have been the great products of civilization, and he ponders the possibilities and character of any course correction. He refers to elites as "the lucky," using homier diction and the sense of "fortunate" rather than "best," in what I read as a very fair assessment of human material conditions.
In 2017, the great wellsprings of organized violence seemed to be US empire on the one hand and Islamist resistance ("Bin Ladenism") on the other. The chill of the new cold war with its latest proxy conflicts had not complicated the picture. But I don't think the political analysis here has aged poorly. Much of it concerns phenomena repeated over long scales of time.
Shawn seems to understand that "If power asks why, then power is weakness" (CCXX II:31), and he is nevertheless resolved to ask why, despite little hope of an answer. This mental quest has reconciled him to a position "halfway to decadence" (64). He expresses gratitude to teachers who helped to orient him in this direction of renouncing the privileges that accrue from domination. He also remarks the attraction and hazards of vengeance, ultimately adopting a sort of fatalism--refusing to condemn others in order to resist the role of punisher (cf. Liber XXX, pt. 6).… (altro)