Harold Pinter Knihy

Jednosměrné kyvadlo / N. F. Simpson -- Bezva finta / Ann Jellicoe -- Narozeniny / Harold Pinter -- Návrat domů / Harold Pinter. Čtyři hry tří anglických autorů, které mají ve společném vydání sloužit jako příspěvek systematického poznání absurdního divadla, zvaného též černé divadlo, také černé drama. resp. antidrama. Jde většinou o grotesky krutosti s paradoxní logikou, jejichž „zdravý smysl je v nesmyslu“. Doslov František Vrba.

Divadelní hra, vrcholné dílo anglického dramatika, uznávaného za typického a významného představitele tzv. divadla absurdity v Anglii. Hra vyvolala pozornost i mimo Anglii a bývá vykládána různě. Český vykladač v ní vidí snahu zobrazit "marný pokus starého, zuboženého tuláka, deklasovanéexistence Daviese uchytit, zajistit, zařadit se ve světě".

A unique testimony to modern literature's most celebrated and enduring marriage.

In the early 1970s Harold Pinter joined forces with director Joseph Losey and Proust scholar Barbara Bray to develop a screenplay of Proust's masterpiece, Remembrance of Things Past. Pinter took more than a year to conceive and write the screenplay and called the experience "the best working year of my life." Although never produced, Harold Pinter's The Proust Screenplay is considered one of the greatest adaptations for the cinema ever written.With fidelity to Proust's text, the screenplay is an extraordinary re-creation by one of the leading playwrights of our time. It is, in its way, a unique collaboration between two extraordinary writers united across more than half a century and two different cultures by a special concern for time and memory.

This volume contains the plays Harold Pinter wrote during the 1970s and 1980s: Old Times, No Man's Land, Betrayal, One for the Road, and Mountain Language. Also included is the one-act triple-bill Other Places, composed of Family Voices, A Kind of Alaska, and Victoria Station.

This volume contains Harold Pinter's first six plays, including The Birthday Party. The Birthday Party Stanley 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 Times The Room and The Dumb Waiter In 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 Times The Hothouse The 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

Do Hirst and Spooner really know each other, or are they performing an elaborate charade? The ambiguity - and the comedy - intensify with the arrival of Briggs and Foster. All four inhabit a no-man's-land between time present and time remembered, between reality and imagination.

This revised edition of Harold Pinter's Plays 4 features his latest play, Celebration, and highlights Pinter as a leading figure in British drama during the latter half of the twentieth century, as noted by the Swedish Academy in his 2005 Nobel Prize citation.