London - E 'mort or Harold Pinter. She was 78.
R OMA -''I wrote 29 pieces in 50 years, and 'enough? Certainly is' for me.'' Harold Pinter was fond of repeating this phrase in recent years, marked by the illness that struck in 2002, the satisfaction of having the Nobel Prize in 2005, but also by the desire for renewed political commitment and civil rights, who had fits of
uramente Bush and Blair.
already 'over her work before, selling his stock at the British Library, just a year ago to 1.65 million euro.
One hundred and fifty boxes of letters, manuscripts, photographs. Among the gems of the chapter marked by his friendship with Samuel Beckett, with whom he shared a passion for cricket and rugby, but obviously that theater.
It 's not it a coincidence, or rather indicates the power of suggestion that his work, the fact that the name of Harold Pinter was born
an adjective, Pinter, below, but differs from Beckett, derived from the name of the author of which 'was always considered a bit' heir.
The first expresses a discomfort, however, a strong feeling of uncertainty and fear, while the other has a taste for disaster and lost more 'total. Rarely, an author and 'was so' immediate metaphorical poetic force, to quality 'and dramatic invention as Harlod Pinter, who was long considered a classic of Novec
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not 'never pulled back in front and civil commitment in time and 'went from a vein more' existential to a more 'strongly held policy to the last.
a few months ago his last appeal for justice and to identify those responsible for the killing of Anna Politkovskaya. His radical commitment against any abuse of power, even democratic ones, and in the name of peace, which became public in the Thatcher years, introduced him to some extent, another Nobel laureate Dario For.
the commitment approach 'also to Arthur Miller in 1985 under which Turkey was the protagonist in a violent denunciation of political oppression that cost' for both the overthrow: I was born to play Mountain Language. But as was directed in life rather than alluding to the scene, where she gave birth to the threat of theater (''The life of each of us and 'always threatened and uncertain. We live in the repression and pretend to live in freedom'').
His and 'the art of writing for subtraction, building characters and stories specimens, dropped from every contingency. And yet we make them feel alive, special, exemplary.
Vale for the figures of the early dramas fifties and sixties, the 'dumb waiter' to the 'Guardian', as well as those more 'politicians of the last twenty years, from' The nightcap 'in' Ashes to Ashes', through the tragicomedies that deal apparently love and his lies, from 'The Lover' in 'Betrayal', but perhaps talk about deception far more 'profound and existential, the inevitable death of illusions and hopes.
Pinter was born in Hackney, a suburb of London, October 10, 1930, begin 'her theatrical career as an actor, attending the first major acting schools, then turning Ireland with a Shakespeare company under the name of David Barron.
His early career as a playwright, 'almost by accident in 1957, when he wrote a friend for four days in a one-act play entitled 'The room'. In 1958 the famous 'Birthday Party', where two unknown visitors swoop at the home of a young misanthrope who lives alone.
arouses even greater impact on the work of Pinter when the arguments become more 'dramatic, and it is understood that the reference', For example, the tragedy of the disappeared in Argentina 'nightcap' of 1984 or the Shoah in 'Ashes to Ashes' of 1996.
Author of his time, Pinter has also written radio texts, books of poetry and screenplays for film, linking his name with quality films' success and, as' The French Lieutenant's Woman 'by Reisz, for which' was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe, 'Comfort of Strangers' Schrader,' Messenger of Love 'Losey.
He also adapted for film Proust's masterpiece, ever made and released only in volume. (ANSA)
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