美国当代两位杰出的剧作家阿瑟·米勒和田纳西·威廉斯,他们的代表作《推销员之死》和《欲望号街车》,我国观众读者现在都不陌生了。但是与这两位作家关系密切,首先使这两出戏在舞台上大放异采的伊立亚·卡赞,许多人可能还比较生疏。卡赞在三十年代是活跃左翼剧坛的演员,四十到六十年代是百老汇和好莱坞的名导演,六十年代后是畅销小说作者,文艺生涯延续半个世纪以上,不久前出版了长八百余页的自传《人生一世》。《纽约时报》称他“从风浪中滚过来,又最会兴风作浪(stormtossed and stormy),是本世纪美国最有声有色的艺术家之一。” Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, two prominent contemporary American playwrights, whose masterpieces Death of a Salesman and A Streetcar Named Desire, are no stranger to our audience. But close to the two writers, Ilya Kazan, who played a major role in the play on both sides of the scene, may be quite strange to many. Kazan was an active left-wing performer in the 1930s, a director in Broadway and Hollywood in the 40s and 60s, a writer of best-selling novels in the 1960s, and a literary career that lasted for more than half a century. Not long ago, Eight hundred pages of autobiography “life I”. The New York Times said he “rolled over the storm and most of the time was storm-tossed and stormy, one of America’s most impressive artists of the century.”