William Saroyan (1908–1981)
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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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Aumuller, 1940 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117536)
Opere di William Saroyan
The New Saroyan Reader: A Connoisseur's Anthology of the Writings of William Saroyan (1984) 18 copie
Look at us; let's see; here we are; look hard, speak soft; I see, you see, we all see; stop, look, listen; beholder's… (1967) 11 copie
Three Plays By William Saroyan: the Beautiful People, Sweeney in the Trees, and Across the Board on Tomorrow Morning (1941) 8 copie
The Arabian nights 7 copie
Selected Short Stories 6 copie
Terves ilmas ja lausa taevas 4 copie
Sterren en strepen 3 copie
Three Plays : My Hearts in the Highlands, the Time of Your Life, Loves Old Sweet Song (1940) 3 copie
Don't go away mad, and two other plays: Sam Ego's house [and] A decent birth, a happy funeral 3 copie
A Native American 3 copie
Three Plays 3 copie
DOGS, OR THE PARIS COMEDY and Two Other Plays, Chris Sick, or Happy New Year Anyway, and Making Money and Nineteen… (1969) 2 copie
The world in Vogue 2 copie
Three Times Three 2 copie
Four great short stories 2 copie
Srdce na Vysočine 2 copie
The Laughing Matter 1 copia
El tigre de Tracy y otros 1 copia
Cartas desde Rue Taitbout 1 copia
The Messenger [short story] 1 copia
Malenka Manon [short story] 1 copia
The Black Tartars [short story] 1 copia
Going Home [short story] 1 copia
Five Ripe Pears [short story] 1 copia
The Cat [short story] 1 copia
Laughing Sam [short story] 1 copia
O assírio 1 copia
Um dia na tarde do mundo 1 copia
Fletcher Martin 1 copia
A comédio humana 1 copia
Mama, volim te 1 copia
Inhale and Exhale 1 copia
A Comédia Humana 1 copia
Sono il tuo mondo?: racconti 1 copia
Respirando en el mundo 1963 1 copia
Oyster and the Pearl 1 copia
Human Comedy 1 copia
Il tempo della vostra vita 1 copia
MY HEART IN THE HIGHLANDS 1 copia
The Whole Voyald 1 copia
At Sundown [short story] 1 copia
Obras 1 copia
The Third Day After Christmas 1 copia
Talking To You 1 copia
The Ping-Pong Players 1 copia
Radio Play 1 copia
A Special Announcement 1 copia
The Agony Of Little Nations 1 copia
Bad Men In The West 1 copia
Opera, Opera 1 copia
The Great American Goof 1 copia
Elmer and Lily 1 copia
The Crazy Lady in the Red Bikini 1 copia
Sono il tuo mondo? Racconti 1 copia
Settled Out of Court 1 copia
All titles 1 copia
Three Worlds: Hairenik, 1934-1939 An Anthology of Short Stories and Poems by Young Armenian Writers in the United… — A cura di — 1 copia
The Face of Innocence 1 copia
The Fiscal Hoboes 1 copia
The gay and melancholy flux 1 copia
William Saroyan: Warsaw Visitor and Tales from the Vienna Streets (Two Unpublished Plays) (1990) 1 copia
Saroyan William 1 copia
Resurrection of a Life 1 copia
The Drinkers [short story] 1 copia
Daily News [short story] 1 copia
The Broken Wheel [short story] 1 copia
Morning [short story] 1 copia
Rapazes e raparigas 1 copia
Puntate su domattina 1 copia
TWO SHORT PLAYS 1 copia
Obras de William Saroyan (II) 1 copia
Obras de William Saroyan (I) 1 copia
Sweeney In The Trees 1 copia
The Human Comedy [abridged] 1 copia
Ученик брадобрея: рассказы 1 copia
Opere correlate
The American Short Story: A Collection of the Best Known and Most Memorable Stories by the Great American Authors (1994) — Collaboratore — 318 copie
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Collaboratore — 183 copie
The Big Book of Favorite Horse Stories: Twenty-Five Outstanding Stories by Distinguished Authors (1965) — Collaboratore — 158 copie
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Collaboratore — 83 copie
Published and Perished: Memoria, Eulogies, and Remembrances of American Writers (2002) — Collaboratore — 37 copie
Discovering Fiction Student's Book 1: A Reader of American Short Stories (2001) — Collaboratore — 19 copie
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Collaboratore — 13 copie
The Best Short Stories of 1941 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1941) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
Great American Short Stories: O. Henry Memorial Prize Winning Stories, 1919-1934 (1935) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
My Most Inspiring Moment: Encounters with Destiny Relived by Thirty-Eight Best-Selling Authors (1965) 10 copie
Amerikanische Kurzgeschichten (American Short Stories) (English and German Edition) (1956) — Collaboratore — 9 copie
Many-Colored Fleece: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Catholic Fiction (2022) — Collaboratore — 9 copie
Fletcher Martin — Prefazione — 7 copie
West Coast Fiction: Modern Writing from California, Oregon, and Washington (1979) — Collaboratore — 7 copie
The Best Short Stories of 1937 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1937) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
The Best Short Stories of 1940 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1940) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
Our lives : American labor stories — Collaboratore — 6 copie
The Best Short Stories of 1939 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1939) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970, Volume II (1970) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
1935 Essay Annual — Collaboratore — 4 copie
The Big Book of Modern Stories/Großes Kurzgeschichten Buch (Dtv Zweisprachig) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Critics' Choice: New York Drama Critics' Circle Prize Plays, 1935-1955 (1945) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Story in America, 1933-1934: Thirty-Four Selections from the American Issues of "Story," the Magazine Devoted Solely to… (1934) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Wives and Lovers — Collaboratore — 3 copie
The Saturday Evening Post Stories 1962 — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Modern Short Stories — Collaboratore — 3 copie
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1935 — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Furrow's End: An Anthology of Great Farm Stories — Collaboratore — 2 copie
A Reader for Writers — Collaboratore — 2 copie
The Defense of Van, Part I — Prefazione — 2 copie
Rex Lardner Selects the Best of Sports Fiction — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Discovering Fiction Level 2 Student's Book: A Reader of North American Short Stories (2012) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
An Account of the Glorious Struggle of Van-Vasbouragan | The Epic Story of the Self Defense of Armenians — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 2 copie
The Armenian Review - [William] Saroyan Memorial Issue - Unpublished Letters of William Saroyan - Ethnic Motivations of… (1981) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Teatro Norteamericano contemporaneo — Collaboratore — 2 copie
The Best Short Stories of 1935 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1935) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
The Saturday Evening Post Stories 1949 — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Great Railroad Stories of the World — Collaboratore — 2 copie
50 Best Plays of the American Theatre, Volume 3 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
50 seltsame Geschichten — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Direction Vol.1 No.3 (April-June 1935) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
The Time of Your Life: An Anthology of Short Stories — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Die schönsten Tiergeschichten — Collaboratore — 1 copia
The Human Commitment - An Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction — Collaboratore — 1 copia
America through the short story — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Selected Poems — Introduzione — 1 copia
Modern Short Stories — Collaboratore — 1 copia
A Caravan of Music Stories by the World's Great Authors — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Configurations: American Short Stories for the EFL Classroom, Advanced Level (1984) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Friends to Man: The Wonderful World of Animals — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Al pie del acantilado — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Tracy's Tiger — Original Author — 1 copia
Behind the Wheel: Stories of Cars on Road and Track — Collaboratore — 1 copia
The Teaching Experience: An Introduction to Education Through Literature (1976) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Reading and collecting; a monthly review of rare and recent books: Volume 1, Number 11 (October 1937) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
First Love: Stories by Sixteen of Today's Great Authors of Romantic Fiction (1948) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
The Saturday Evening Post Stories 1957 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Saturday Evening POST, Sept. 23, 1961, COVER: A Crime Commissioner Says - The Crooks Get All The Breaks; How to Teach… (1961) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Mestres do moderno conto americano — Collaboratore — 1 copia
14 American Masterpieces Vol.1 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Con los tiernos infantes terribles — Collaboratore — 1 copia
THE GHOST OF SHAH-MOURADIAN ; An Evening with Saroyan - A Review of Short Drive, Sweet Chariot. Monday, May 9, 1966.… — Illustratore — 1 copia
Harlem as Seen by Hirschfeld — Autore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- Garoyan, Sirak
Սարոյեան, Ուիլիամ - Data di nascita
- 1908-08-31
- Data di morte
- 1981-05-18
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Ararat Cemetary, Fresno, California, USA (half of ashes)
Komitas Pantheon, Yerevan, Armenia (half of ashes) - Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Fresno, California, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Fresno, California, USA
- Causa della morte
- prostate cancer
- Luogo di residenza
- Fresno, California, USA
- Istruzione
- self-educated
- Attività lavorative
- short-story writer
novelist
playwright - Relazioni
- Minasian, Archie (cousin)
Matthau, Carol (wife|divorced)
Saroyan, Aram (son)
Saroyan, Hank (nibling)
Saroyan, Strawberry (granddaughter)
Bagdasarian, Ross (cousin) - Organizzazioni
- United States Army (WWII)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Academy Award for Best Story (1943)
Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1940)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1943)
American Theater Hall of Fame (1979)
Parajanov-Vartanov Institute Award (2013) - Agente
- Paul Gitlin
Utenti
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- Voto
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- Recensioni
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- ISBN
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- Lingue
- 22
- Preferito da
- 17