Harold Pinter

Kontroversiell och älskad - Harold Pinter, en av 1900-talets största dramatiker, lämnar ingen oberörd. I mästerverk som Födelsedagsfesten, Älskaren, Svek och Ingenmansland har han skildrat spelet mellan man och kvinna och det anonyma hotet i människors vardag. Här finns även en skarp kritik av makten i olika former. Genom sitt fint utmejslade språk håller han både teaterpubliken och läsarna i stark spänning. Det har sagts att hans mästerskap består i att reducera, det vill säga ta bort all onödig bråte av psykologi, bakgrundsteckning och liknande. I det avseendet kan hans inflytande på det moderna dramat inte underskattas. Kvar finns i Pinters eget fall en paradoxal skönhet, en formens märkliga elegans. Det gör hans pjäser lika läsbara som spelbara. Nio gånger Pinter är den andra av tre volymer av Harold Pinters samlade dramatiska verk (med undantag för Victoria Station). Innehåll: Det värker lite (1958), Fastighetsskötaren (1959), Dvärgarna (1960), Hemkomsten (1964), Landskap (1967), Monolog (1972), Ett slags Alaska (1982), Bergens Språk (1988), Aska (1996). Förord av dramatikern Lars Norén. Översättning från engelska: Sun Axelsson, Magnus Hedlund, Carl-Olof Lång, Sigbrit Lång, Peter Löfgren, Tora Palm, Peter Stormare och Ulla Åberg.

"Julen är räddad". Nils Schwarz i Expressen, 24 november Kontroversiell och älskad - Harold Pinter, en av 1900-talets största dramatiker, lämnar ingen oberörd. I mästerverk som Födelsedagsfesten, Älskaren, Svek och Ingenmansland har han skildrat spelet mellan man och kvinna och det anonyma hotet i människors vardag. Här finns även en skarp kritik av makten i olika former. Genom sitt fint utmejslade språk håller han både teaterpubliken och läsarna i stark spänning. Det har sagts att hans mästerskap består i att reducera, det vill säga ta bort all onödig bråte av psykologi, bakgrundsteckning och liknande. I det avseendet kan hans inflytande på det moderna dramat inte underskattas. Kvar finns i Pinters eget fall en paradoxal skönhet, en formens märkliga elegans. Det gör hans pjäser lika läsbara som spelbara. Harold Pinter tilldelades 2005 års Nobelpris i litteratur för att han i sina dramer »frilägger avgrunden under vardagspratet och bryter sig in i förtryckets slutna rum« (Svenska Akademien).Tolv gånger Pinter är den första av tre volymer av Harold Pinters samlade dramatiska verk (med undantag för Victoria Station). Innehåll: Födelsedagsfesten (1957), I väntan på Wilson (1957), Kollektionen (1961), Älskaren (1962), Natt (1969), Ingenmansland (1974), Svek (1978), Vägs ände (1984), Den nya världsordningen (1991), Party Time (1991), Det ska vi fira (1999), Presskonferens (2002).Den andra volymen utkommer den 28 november 2005, den tredje i mars 2006. Förord av teaterkritikern Leif Zern.Översättning från engelska: Åke Englund och Östen Rudal samt Anna Kölén Theorell.

"The Tenth Muse" gathers together the selections of work of well known poets made by members of their family. These selections originally appeared in pamphlets produced by the Greville Press, and have been gathered together here for the first time. The following is a list of some of the poets and their selectors: George Barker selected by Elspeth Barker; Thomas Blackburn selected by Julia Blackburn; Lawrence Durrell selected by Francoise Kestman Durrell; David Gascoyne selected by Judy Gascoyne; W.S. Graham selected by Nessie Dunsmuir; Robert Graves selected by Beryl Graves; Harold Pinter selected by Antonia Fraser; Ann Ridler selected by Vivian Ridler; C.H. Sisson selected by Nora Sisson; Elizabeth Smart selected by Sebastian Barker; Edward Thomas selected by Myfanwy Thomas; David Wright selected by Oonagh Swift.

Der Ursprung meiner Stücke? Ich will so präzise wie möglich antworten. Ich ging in ein Zimmer, sah einen Menschen, der stand und einen anderen, der saß, und ein paar Wochen später schrieb ich Das Zimmer. Ich ging in ein anderes Zimmer, sah zwei Menschen dasitzen, und ein paar Jahre später schrieb ich Die Geburtstagsfeier. Ich blickte durch eine Tür in ein drittes Zimmer, sah zwei Menschen dastehen und schrieb Der Hausmeister ... Ich bin überzeugt, was in meinen Stücken geschieht, könnte überall, zu jeder Zeit, an jedem Ort geschehen, auch wenn die Ereignisse zunächst fremd erscheinen.

There is no writer who excels at the art of adaptation for the screen so much as Harold Pinter. His consummate skill and unerring ear for dialogue, coupled with his sensitivity and understanding of the work of other authors, make these three volumes a collective masterclass in screenwriting. Everyone who values the word and loves film will savour and enjoy this wide range of work with the distinctive Pinter hallmark.

These collected screenplays include "The Go-Between", "The Proust Screenplay", "Victory", "Turtle Diary", and "Reunion".

This collection of screenplays includes "The Servant", "The Pumpkin Eater", "The Quiller Memorandum", "Accident", "The Go-Between", "The Last Tycoon", "Langrishe, Go Down", and "The Proust Screenplay."

Presents the author's never-produced screenplay of Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past," created with the collaboration of director Joseph Losey and Proust scholar Barbara Bray over the course of one year in the early 1970s.

A black comedy set in a government-run mental institution, The Hothouse revolves around a sinister murder plot hatched against a backdrop of corruption, sexual favors, and hopeless bureaucratic ineptitude. Beneath the surface comedy there are frightening implications concerning a bureaucracy ostensibly dedicated to humanitarian concerns, but where people are referred to by numbers and forgotten as easily as troublesome figures on a balance sheet. Written in 1958, The Hothouse was first performed at London's Hampstead Theatre in April 1980, in a production directed by Pinter himself. "A blistering funny play. . . . Hothouse is wild, impudent, fiercely funny."-Jack Kroll, Newsweek

In this volume, Devlin questions his wife Rebecca in his quest for the truth about her involvement with an abusive ex-lover.

This volume contains Harold Pinter's first six plays, including The Birthday Party.The Birthday PartyStanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by two strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmare.'Mr Pinter's terrifying blend of pathos and hatred fuses unforgettably into the stuff of art.' Sunday TimesThe Room and The Dumb WaiterIn these two early one-act plays, Harold Pinter reveals himself as already in full control of his unique ability to make dramatic poetry of the banalities of everyday speech and the precision with which it defines character.'Harold Pinter is the most original writer to have emerged from the "new wave" of dramatists who gave fresh life to the British theatre in the fifties and early sixties.' The TimesThe HothouseThe Hothouse was first produced in 1980, though Harold Pinter wrote the play in 1958, just before commencing work on The Caretaker. In this compelling study of bureaucratic power, we can see the full emergence of a great and original dramatic talent.'The Hothouse is at once sinister and hilarious, suggesting an unholy alliance of Kafka and Feydeau.' Spectator

For more than twenty years, Mel Gussow, a drama critic for the New York Times, has been meeting Harold Pinter to talk about work and life, plays and people. At the core of this book is a series of lengthy interviews - some of the most extensive that Pinter has ever given - all published here in full for the first time. Pinter and Gussow first meet in 1971, when Old Times is a new play and Pinter's status as a major writer is still being confirmed. Then come public and private conversations in the eighties, when the voice of Pinter's political commitment is first heard. And finally, over a period of a week in September 1993, the two talk after the London premiere of Pinter's latest play, Moonlight. Here the playwright is in a more mellow mood, happy to contemplate his early life and to admit to a political agenda behind such plays as The Birthday Party. Through these and other revealing insights, he allows us to see the complete arc of his work to date in its true light. The resulting book is one of the most thoughtful and intimate portraits of the writer yet to appear. In fact, it is a kind of self-portrait, since, intentionally, it is Pinter who does most of the talking. Though famously reticent on the subjects of his work and his private life, Pinter opens up for Gussow in a manner both beguilingly frank and refreshingly informative.

A collection of five Pinter plays which also contains five revue sketches written during the same period.

Representing Pinter's own selection of his non-dramatic writings, this volume includes pieces of poetry and prose up to 1990 and ranges back to the earliest piece, "The Kullus", which was written when he was 19 years old.

Follows the evolving friendship of Len, an amateur mathematician who works at the Euston train station, Mark, an actor, and Virginia and Pete, a young couple struggling to define their relationship. Reissue.

Complete Works: Two (1959-1963), Vol. 2 Along with Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco, Harold Pinter holds an undisputed place in the front ranks of contemporary dramatists. In volume two of his collected works, the plays and revue sketches mark a period of transition, as Pinter's characters and settings become more recognizably realistic, in contrast to the absurdist atmosphere of his earlier work. The Caretaker, which first brought him fame on both sides of the Atlantic, was called "a play of strangely compelling beauty and passion" by Howard Taubman of The New York Times. An essay by Pinter, Writing for Myself, introduces this collection.

In The Birthday Party, a musician who escapes to a dilapidated boarding house becomes the victim of a ritual murder in which everyone- assassins, victim, and observers- implacably plays out the role assigned him by fate.The Room, a derelict boarding house again becomes the scene of a visitation of fate when a blind Black man suddenly arrives to deliver a mysterious message.

In all of Pinter's plays, seemingly ordinary events become charged with profound, if elusive, meaning, haunting pathos, and wild comedy. In The Caretaker, a tramp finds lodging in the derelict house of two brothers; in The Dumb Waiter, a pair of gunmen wait for the kill in a decayed lodging house. Harold Pinter gradually exposes the inner strains and fears of his characters, alternating hilarity and terror to create an almost unbearable edge of tension.

Complete Works: One (1954-1960), Vol. 1 Harold Pinter has long been acknowledged as one of the most influential playwrights in contemporary theatre; his arresting and original works have left a lasting imprint on the development of the stage and screen while delighting audiences around the world. This, the first of four volumes, contains his first five plays, including The Birthday Party (1958), his first full-length drama; as well as two short stories - The Black and White and The Examination - both written before Pinter turned to the theatre. Pinter's exacting and complex use of language and the features that mark his "comedies of menace" are clearly realized in these plays and stories. His speech Writing for the Theatre introduces the volume and establishes the context for these early years.

A middle-aged couple entertain a friend they have not seen for two decades in Pinter's play first presented in London's West End in June, 1971