So I'm going to have a copy of this play put in the corner-stone and the people a thousand years from now'll know a few simple facts about us—more than the Treaty of Versailles and the Lindbergh fight.
See what I mean?
So—people a thousand years from now—this is the way we were in the provinces north of new York at the beginning of the twentieth century.—This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our dying. (33)
換言之本劇的寫實之處是在各人物的行為(與日常)之中。由此看來,外在呈現與內在精神不免有點扞格,劇中刻意非寫實的設計是不必要的,因為這麼做的意圖不明,像是為了不寫實而不寫實。我認為Our Town最大的缺陷在此,到最後兩頁我都還認為有機會逆轉這個缺陷,可惜最後並沒有發生。
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Wilder, Thornton. Our Town. New York: Harper Perennial, 2003.
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*The Pulitzer Prizes在台灣比較為人所知的是美國新聞報導方面的獎項,其實也是美國文學(包括戲劇、小說、詩、評論、傳記、廣義Non-fiction[勉強稱為散文])和音樂的重要大獎。Our Town是1942年的得獎作品。Thornton Wilder是唯一同時有作品在文學獎項跨類別獲獎(得過一次小說、兩次戲劇),得獎次數僅次於詩人Robert Frost和劇作家Eugene O'Neill(四次),與劇作家Edward Albee並列第三。
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