Written by Mohamed Abdel Rahman
Friday, February 10, 2023 03:00 PM
Today marks the 18th anniversary of the death of the American writer Arthur MillerHe died on February 10, 2005, at the age of 89, and the deceased is considered one of the giants of contemporary American theater, and he was a leading advocate of intellectual freedom.
In addition to his wonderful literary creations, the late writer was famous for his marriage to the first Hollywood star through the ages Marlin MonroeWhich made some envy the man twice, the first because he was the writer who was able to reach his literature to the whole world, and the writers wished that they would write some of his wonderful works, in addition to that he married the woman who was the dream girl of that era’s generation, they only wished to meet her The Egyptian writers had positions and stories with the late writer, some of them told about it, including:
Naguib Mahfouz
The late international writer Naguib Mahfouz, the only Arab recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988, met the American writer during his visit to Egypt, and this was his opinion, which he mentioned in his conversation with the great critic Rajaa al-Naqqash in the book “Pages from Naguib Mahfouz’s Memoirs.” Mahfouz said: “After I won the Nobel Prize, an employee at the American Embassy in Cairo called me, and told me that the great American playwright Arthur Miller is in Egypt and wants to meet me. I welcomed the meeting because Miller is one of the writers I love, especially since I read his play “Death.” Peddler” translated into Arabic, and after that I became a follower of his work, and one of his permanent readers as well.
Naguib Mahfouz continued: “At the appointed time, I went to the hotel where he was staying, accompanied by the embassy employee who arranged the meeting, and when we went up to his hotel room, I was surprised by one of the women lying on the bed in the American manner, and I knew that she was his wife. I did not know that Miller had yet to marry Marilyn Monroe.” And my surprise increased when I saw a young girl playing merrily next to us, and I knew that she was his daughter, and I also did not know that Miller had a son.
And he continued: “We had a long conversation about the Nobel Prize, and he told me that it is something accidental in the life of a true writer, it may or may not come, and I told him about his works and my admiration for them, and he told me how sad he was because he did not read any work to me because he did not find works at that time.” Translated into English.
Joseph Idris
The great writer, Youssef Idris, said in his book, “Intentionally.. Hear, hearUnder the title “A Dialogue with Marilyn Monroe’s Husband”: “Let the reader excuse me for this title, Marilyn Monroe is much more famous than her husband, the dean of the American theater, Arthur Miller,” noting that the meeting he had with the American writer was on a New York street, and few people knew him. Which made Idris wonder: “What if I were walking with Marilyn Monroe right now? Wasn’t the whole street completely stopped moving? Such poor writers always work behind the scenes.”
Anis Mansour
While Anis Mansour expressed through his book “They Lived in My Life” about how jealous he was of Marilyn Monroe, he explains that when he learned of her marriage to Arthur Miller, he said: I hated this man, and the day I translated his play “After the Fall”, which has pages about Marilyn Monroe, it increased. hate him.
Mansour continues his speech, saying: Marilyn Monroe remained a beautiful, golden, shimmering image before my eyes, and she and other blondes, my way to a long study on the torment of beauty, or the beauty of torment: or about blonde hell, and I did not forget her nor did I leave one book that appeared about her until it was collected by a hundred book!