Nachgelesen: Harold Pinter's Nobel Lecture
In seinen Notes vom 12.11.2005 weist Richard auf die Rede Harold Pinters anläßlich der Verleihung des Nobelpreises für Literatur 2005 an ihn hin. Harold Pinter wurde auch in Deutschland durch Stücke wie "Der Hausmeister" bekannt.
Aus der Laudatio zum Nobelpreis:
With his twenty-nine plays and about a hundred that he has directed or acted in, he has made the theatre his own domain. His figures barricade themselves in unpredictable dialogues. Between the lines of unresolved threats, it roils and stings. What we hear are signals for everything we do not hear.
The abyss under chat, the unwillingness to communicate other than superficially, the need to rule and mislead, the suffocating sensation of accidents bubbling under the quotidian, the nervous perception that a dangerous story has been censored - all this vibrates through Pinter's drama.
His characters are at the mercy of each other on the periphery of life. They are also prisoners in the limbo of class divisions, set phrases and solidified habits. Their identities, backgrounds and histories are vague, and different versions exist depending on who is remembering. They seldom listen to each other but it is precisely their mental deafness that makes us listen. Not a word passes unnoticed, nor can we relax a single minute. Atmospheric pressure fluctuates as secrets unroll and shift the distribution of power.
Weitere Informationen und auch der Link zu den Einträgen der Deutschen Bibliothek finden sich im Artikel zu Harold Pinter bei Wikipedia