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Resistance Trilogy: Widows; Death and the Maiden; Reader

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Death and the Maiden is 'a terrifying moral thriller which combines brilliant theatricality with clear thought and fierce compassion' Sunday Times. It ran for a year in the West End, was a hit on Broadway and was filmed by Polanski.
Reader, premiered at the Traverse Theater, Edinburgh, is about a censor who discovers that a novel he wishes to ban is describing his own life.
Widows, also first produced by the Traverse, is about the men who 'disappear' under totalitarian regimes and about the women who wait.

224 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1998

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Ariel Dorfman

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Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. A citizen of the United States since 2004, he has been a professor of literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina since 1985.

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183 reviews108 followers
September 21, 2017
کتاب شامل سه نمایشنامه بیوه ها، مرگ و دوشیزه وخداننده‌یمتن هستش
یه درد خاصی توی هر کدوم احساس میشه
نمایشنامه ی آخر عالی هستش ،منتهی من دو بار خوندمش تا بفهمم داستان رو

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این کتاب اجازه ی چاپ نگرفته تو ایران و توسط نشر نوگام به صورت رایگان برای مطالعه قرار داده شده
قبل از خوندن کتاب ، تو این فکر بودم که دلیل مجوز نگرفتنش چی میتونه باشه...
کتاب توی هر نمایشنامه ، بعدی از خفقان تو جامعه های دیکتاوری مثل ایران رو به خوبی نشون میده
سعی کنید بخونید این کتاب رو ، حرف خوب برای گفتن زیاد داره.
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Author 5 books27 followers
September 17, 2017
بعضی از آدم‌ها به قول ولادیمیر مایاکوفسکی «ابر شلوارپوش» هستند. لطیف چون ابر اما روی زمین راه می‌روند سیدمصطفی رضیئی یکی از آنان است. جوانی بس همه‌چیزدان با دستی توانا در ترجمه نه از این مترجم‌های چون قارچ روئیده که نه زبان مبدا می‌دانند نه زبان مقصد و نه موضوع مورد ترجمه فقط ترجمه می‌کنند چون فعلا بازار ترجمه پررونق‌تر از تالیف است. این روزها با خواندن سه‌گانه مقاوت شامل سه نمایش‌نامه از نمایش‌نامه‌نویس شهیر قرن بیستم که در قرن بیست و یکم به حیات ادبی خود ادامه داد، ترجمه آقای رضیئی حظ مطالعه متنی خوب با ترجمه‌یی درست را می‌برم که مپرس.
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October 28, 2019
Dorfman's trilogy of plays deals with the perennial paradox - a trait which completely sets Dorfman apart from his contemporaries - of the unadulterated need to craft and tell stories which coexists with the enigmatic reality where these stories are silenced, trampled on or completely mutilated. Dorfman's allegorical approach at weaving this paradox into the heart of these plays is where its genius lies. 'The Resistance Trilogy' is a body of work - that addresses themes of suppression and trauma, while exploring ways to be at peace with the past without being its prisoner - through which Dorfman takes readers on a journey into tales that leave them scrambling for answers.
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June 8, 2024
ترجمه [رضیئی] خجالت‌آور. فاجعه‌بار. هرچی بگم درباب بد بودنش کم گفتم. دونه‌دونه‌ی نمایشنامه‌هارو‌ باید یه بار دیگه با یه ترجمه‌ی قابل خوندن بخونم.
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24 reviews32 followers
April 26, 2011
Gut punching truth. Three plays to get you into reading plays: cinema for the head.
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