Harold Pinter's Nobel lecture
Harold Pinter Nobel prize lecture is now online.
In it he says there are multiple truths in drama, but that politicians are not interested in truth. Which truth of the multiple ones he sees, does he think is the one they should adhere to?
Self hating or parochial Anglo Saxon?
Reading him, and about him I'm struck by how he favors anyone who is not Anglo Saxon, while heaping scorn on the US and UK. Could it be that he has never bothered to immerse himself in other cultures? Could he, for all his international success, be so parochial? Other cultures seem to be a refuge for him, part of a two dimensional dream of a world that is truer and well, less Anglo Saxon. But the grime and dirt is everywhere, and often untempered by democracy and free trade. Can he see that? Or is the rest of the world just the stage for an Anglo Saxon drama, in his mind? Do the people in other countries exist or are they just puppets in his texts? To his credit he does mention the oppression within the Soviet bloc in his lecture. But he supports Castro and Milosevic.
Pinter and many other writers beside him, are like they have found this wonderful tool: An insight into the human condition, the drama, the relationsips in small groups, the subjective experience. And when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. I have elaborated more on this in Pinter and intellectuals of Europe.
In it he says there are multiple truths in drama, but that politicians are not interested in truth. Which truth of the multiple ones he sees, does he think is the one they should adhere to?
Self hating or parochial Anglo Saxon?
Reading him, and about him I'm struck by how he favors anyone who is not Anglo Saxon, while heaping scorn on the US and UK. Could it be that he has never bothered to immerse himself in other cultures? Could he, for all his international success, be so parochial? Other cultures seem to be a refuge for him, part of a two dimensional dream of a world that is truer and well, less Anglo Saxon. But the grime and dirt is everywhere, and often untempered by democracy and free trade. Can he see that? Or is the rest of the world just the stage for an Anglo Saxon drama, in his mind? Do the people in other countries exist or are they just puppets in his texts? To his credit he does mention the oppression within the Soviet bloc in his lecture. But he supports Castro and Milosevic.
Pinter and many other writers beside him, are like they have found this wonderful tool: An insight into the human condition, the drama, the relationsips in small groups, the subjective experience. And when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. I have elaborated more on this in Pinter and intellectuals of Europe.