Oleanna

《Oleanna》只有两个人、一间办公室、一场关于成绩的谈话，却能在极短的篇幅里让温和的探讨骤然滑向互相攻讦。Mamet的高明，不在于给出答案，而在于把一场对话拆解成权力如何运作的现场演示：一句无心的话如何被重新编码为指控，苏格拉底式的追问如何沦为攻击的武器。读者反馈中最具争议的，正是它拒绝站队——你很难简单地说清谁是施害者、谁是受害者。有人看到弱势群体借「政治正确」上位，也有人反问：以教条压制他人，与以权威压制他人，究竟有何不同？正是这种刻意留白，让不同立场的读者都能从中读到自己愤怒的理由。它适合所有不愿被轻易说服、愿意在不适中继续追问的人。

David Mamet is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, as well as a director, novelist, poet, and essayist. He has written the screenplays for more than twenty films, includingHeist, Spartan, House of Games, The Spanish Prisoner, The Winslow Boy, Wag the Dog, and the Oscar-nominatedThe Verdict. His more than twenty plays includeOleanna, The Cryptogram, Speed-the-Plow, American Buffalo, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and the Pulitzer PrizewinningGlengarry Glen Ross. Born in Chicago in 1947, Mamet has taught at the Yale School of Drama, New York University, and Goddard College, and is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company."