Eugene O'neill

謝謝君白老師選了這個戲劇，讓我可以再讀它，我只記得黑白的影片中，這家人無限地糾葛。


Eugene O'neill把劇本Long day’s journey into night獻給自己的妻子，希望他這個他認為最好的作品能在他死後二十年發表，但Carlotta在他去世兩年後，就把它公諸於世．

For Carlotta, on our 12^th Wedding Anniversary

Dearest: I give you the original script of this play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood. A sadly inappropriate gift, it would seem, for a day celebrating happiness. But you will understand. I mean it as a tribute to your love and tenderness which gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and write this play -- write it with deep pity and understanding and forgiveness for all the four haunted Tyrones. These twelve years, Beloved One, have been a Journey into Light -- into love. You know my gratitude. And my love!

Tea house

July 22, 1941

　　　　

Eugene O'neill把劇本Long day’s journey into night獻給自己的妻子，希望他這個他認為最好的作品能在他死後二十年發表，但Carlotta在他去世兩年後，就把它公諸於世

我在網路上摘錄下他的信，他談到他的家人：

trapped within each other by the past, each guilty and at the same time innocent, scorning, loving, pitying each other, understanding and yet not understanding at all, forgiving but still doomed never to be able to forget.

我希望我能原諒寬恕。我希望，我也能因為努力學習自理生活，而能找到一個與我相配的男人，不再是長夜漫漫long day’s journey into the night，而是往光明的地方去long day’s journey into the light。