photo by David Appleby
Mentally robust, as full of righteous rage, as ever.
“I don’t make judgments about my own work,
and I don’t analyze it; I just let it happen.
That applies to everything I’ve done. I do tend to think that I’ve written a great deal out of my unconscious because half the time I don’t know what a given character is going to say next.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/movies/07lyal.html?ref=arts
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hpinter.htm
Language is not only used as a means of communication but as a weapon. Beneath the words, there is a silence of fear, rage and domination, fear of intimacy.
English playwright who achieved international success as one of the most complex post-World War II dramatists. Harold Pinter's plays are noted for their use of silence to increase tension, understatement, and cryptic small talk. Equally recognizable are the 'Pinteresque' themes - nameless menace, erotic fantasy, obsession and jealousy, family hatred and mental disturbance. In 2005, Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
Saturday, October 6, 2007
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