Complete Works, Vol. 1
by Harold Pinter
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Author: Harold PinterEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1994-01-18
ISBN: 0802150969
Number of pages: 251
Publisher: Grove Press
Book Reviews of Complete Works, Vol. 1
Book Review: A Nobel undeserved
Summary: 1 Stars
Pinter's work is the proof that you can manage to be boring without being longwinded. I have always found him close to impossible to read. As for the famous pauses and threats which make his onstage theatre so compelling to his fans, these I have found only heighten the annoying quality of the reading.
Pinter is an heir of Beckett and belongs to 'The Real Mankind is the diminished broken fragment of itself' school.
But these broken voices, these characters always seeming to menace and imprison each other, present a kind of picture of humanity at one minor extreme only.
Pinter in his political work presents himself as a spokesman for the oppressed of Mankind and has for years attacked the United States.
The United States is without its faults, mistakes and misjudgments nonetheless the single major force in the world which prevents Mankind from falling into a dark night of Totalitarian Terror.
To take advantage of the freedoms given by the world's democracies to attack in an exaggerated way these democracies
is the kind of moral teaching which can lead Mankind to nothing but a 'dark night of the soul' in which no one will ever dare to read the kind of literary work Pinter has devoted his life to.
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