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Harold Pinter
Biography:
Playwright and director, born 1930 in London,
England. Was a repertory actor, then poet and writer. His first drama was The
Room (1957). He then turned to playwriting, and his first major play
was The Birthday Party (1958). It was initially received poorly but
after his successful play, The Caretaker (1960, film 1963), it
became a success as well. The Birthday Party has been televised
twice (1960, 1987) and filmed once (1968). His other plays include The
Homecoming (1965), Old Times (1971), and No Man's Land
(1975). The Lover (1963), his television play, won the Italia
Prize. His early screenplays include The Servant (1962), The
Pumpkin Eaters (1963), Accident (1967), and The Go-Between
(1969).
He became an associate director of the National
Theatre after his close associate, Peter Hall, became its director in
1973. During the 1980's he wrote several screenplays, The French
Lieutenant's Woman (1981) and Reunion (1989). He also wrote the
short plays A Kind of Alaska (1982) and Mountain Language
(1988), both of which show an explicit commitment to radical political
causes. Moonlight was produced in 1993. |
Ashes to Ashes
Paperback - 96 pages 1
edition (April 1997) $8.00
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Betrayal
Paperback (March 1983)
$8.80
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The Birthday Party and
The Room: Two Plays
Paperback (April 1971)
$8.00
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The Caretaker and
The Dumb Waiter
Paperback (December 1989)
$8.80
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Complete Works
1
Includes The Birthday
Party, The Room, The Dumb Waiter, A Slight Ache, A Night
Out, The Black and White and The Examination
Paperback - Vol 1 (November 1990) $9.60
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Complete Works
2
Includes The Caretaker, The Dwarfs, The Collection, The
Lover, Night School and Revue Sketches
Paperback Vol 2 (November 1990) $9.60
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Complete Works
3
Includes The Homecoming, Tea Party,
The Basement, Landscape, Silence and Revue Sketches
Paperback - Vol 3 (November 1990) $9.60
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Complete Works
4
Includes Old Times, No Man's
Land, Betrayal, Monologue and Family Voices
Paperback Vol 4 (November 1990) $9.60
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Conversations
with Pinter
Paperback - 158 pages
(August 1996) $12.00
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Dwarfs:
A Novel
Paperback Reprint edition
(November 1991) $11.95
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The Homecoming:
A Play
Paperback (April 1989)
$7.16
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The Hothouse
"The playwright has an unfailing ear for institutionalized
doublespeak, and The Hothouse is full of rapid-fire bits that sound
like old vaudeville routines as they might have been rewritten by Ionesco."
(Frank Rich, The New York Times)
"The Hothouse is Pinter's funniest
play." (Ed Kalem, Time)
"A blistering funny play . . . Hothouse
is wild, impudent, fiercely funny." (Jack Kroll, Newsweek)
"Characteristically cryptic and very funny,
just what Kafka might have come up with." (Carolyn Clay, The
Boston Phoenix)
Paperback - 160 pages (March 1, 1999) $9.60
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Moonlight
Paperback - 80 pages
(July 1994) $9.60
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Mountain Language
Paperback (March 1989)
$7.95
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No Mans Land
Paperback (August 1975)
$9.95
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Old Times
Paperback (May 1989)
$6.36
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One for the Road
Paperback (June 1986)
$7.95
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Other Places:
Three Plays
Paperback (June 1983)
$6.95
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Party Time and
The New World Order: Two Plays
Paperback - 60 pages
(January 1994) $11.00
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Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics
Harold
Pinter has been called "one of the most important playwrights of our
day" by The New York Times, and his plays, including The
Birthday Party, The Homecoming, and The Caretaker, have
become seminal works in our literary canon. Pinter has always been
reluctant to comment on his work, preferring to let his writing speak for
itself. Now, for the first time, Pinter presents his won selections form a
prolific body of prose, poetry, and political writings, offering new
insight into the man and his literary and dramatic oeuvre. Various
Voices comprises a wealth of material and a multiplicity of forms that
demonstrate both Pinter's development as a writer and the stylistic
precision he so consistently achieves outside the more familiar context of
his plays. Through Various Voices the reader can trace Pinter's
evolution, from his youthful explorations into the boundaries of his craft
to the seasoned maturity of his later work. His nonfiction selections span
A Note on Shakespeare (1950) to a letter to Peter Wood, the first
director of The Birthday Party (1958); the short stories begin with
Kullus (1949) and end with Girls (1995); the poetry ranges
from School Life (1948) to the powerful and moving Death
(1997); and the political writings illustrate the depth and lucidity of
Pinter's views on human-rights issues around the world. Various Voices
is an essential companion to Pinter's plays and enables the reader to
fully appreciate the breadth of a body of work spanning fifty years.
"There is no playwright his equal. He is the
natural descendant of James Joyce, by way of Samuel Beckett. Pinter works
the language as a master pianist works the keyboard." (Martin
Gottfried, New York Post)
"Various Voices is an engrossing
collection of prose and verse and should be obligatory reading for anyone
who values and enjoys original and intelligent writing." (Vernon
Scannell, The Sunday Telegraph)
"[Pinter's] spare, honed prose, prose
fiction and poetry are beautiful." (Iain Finlayson, The Mail on
Sunday)
"His obituaries of friends, actors, his
teacher, his agent and the way he captures the lyrical cadences and
semiotics of cricket reveal a tenderness not apparent in the stage plays.
Pinter is a wonderful writer of characters in action. . . . Pinter asks
the great question of our age: 'Is an accurate and vital correspondence
between what is and our perception of it impossible?' Various Voices
is testimony to his irascible life-long political commitment." (The
Times, London)
"A wonderful book that not only emphasizes
the versatility of his genius but also gives a portrait of the
compassionate individual behind the myth of the difficult author." (The
Evening Standard, London)
"Pinter's political prose is admirable, its
lucidity and force contrasting keenly with the 'stale, dead but immensely
successful rhetoric' that has, in his view, defeated our intelligence and
democratic will." (The Sunday Times, London)
"By showing him in so many different lights,
these literary out-takes build up a picture not of a monolithic artist
secure behind a wall of certitude, but of a creative, thoughtful, and
political human being, driven by a variety of impulses and concerns."
(The Herald, Glasgow)
"Offers relatively little to the general reader, but students and
fans of the playwright ... will find it indispensable." (Andrew
O'Hehir, The New York Times Book Review)
Hardcover - 208 pages 1
edition (April 1999) $16.10
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Eight Revue
Sketches
Paperback $5.25
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The Proust
Screenplay: A la Recherché du Temps Perdu
In the early 1970s Harold Pinter joined forces with director Joseph Losey
and Proust scholar Barbara Bray to develop a screenplay of Proust's
masterpiece, Remembrance of Things Past. Pinter took more than a
year to conceive and write the screenplay and called the experience
"the best working year of my life." Although never produced,
Harold Pinter's The Proust Screenplay is considered one of the
greatest adaptations for the cinema ever written.
With fidelity to Proust's text, the screenplay is
an extraordinary re-creation by one of the leading playwrights of our
time. It is, in its way, a unique collaboration between two extraordinary
writers united across more than half a century and two different cultures
by a special concern for time and memory.
Paperback - 208 pages (October 1999) $11.20
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