Harold Pinter Plays 1: The Birthday Party; The Room; The Dumb Waiter; A Slight Ache; The Hothouse; A Night Out; The Black and White; The Examination

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中身は文句ないんですが、表紙も裏表紙も折れててがっくりです…海外通販だからと言ってもどちらも三角折れなので、郵送中のものじゃないはず。わざわざ新品を買う意味が無いですよね。夏に出る、Pinter Pinterの新カバーのも欲しかったですが、注文するの悩む。直接行った時に買おうかな。

The Birthday Party was Pinter's first major play, and after a disastrous premiere soon established itself as a modern classic. The other plays in this volume are no less rewarding. The dialogue is a stunning achievement, inconsequential on the surface, but richly suggestive underneath -- of a world that is simultaneously absurd and menacing, and of characters who do not wish to communicate, and would not be able to, even if they wished. The heredity, through Beckett and Ionesco, all the way back to Maeterlinck, is manifest. Realism and symbolism are brilliantly combined.But isn't it about time that Faber and Faber did Pinter more justice? The volume is in a rigid binding that easily cracks, the paper is of poor quality, the print is thick and nasty, and the price is exorbitant -- though fortunately Amazon and its dealers are offering the book at well below the publisher's price. But surely the time has come for Faber and Faber to issue a new Collected Pinter, in the handsome format that is surely due to one of the greatest of English dramatists.

I bought this for my niece thinking it was something to do with Harry Potter, but it's actually Harry Pinter. Needless to say my niece was quite disappointed as she was expecting magic and wizards and suchlike but got menacing pauses and underlying threats in run down boarding houses in seaside towns.Spoiler alert: Bumbledore dies at the end.