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Join the roomHarold Pinter fue un dramaturgo, guionista, director y actor inglés. Receptor del Premio Nobel de Literatura de 2005, Pinter fue uno de los dramaturgos británicos modernos más influyentes con una carrera de escritura que abarcó más de 50 años. Sus obras más conocidas incluyen The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964) y Betrayal (1978), cada una de las cuales adaptó para la pantalla. Sus adaptaciones de guiones de obras de otros incluyen The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1971), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Trial (1993) y Sleuth (2007). También dirigió o actuó en producciones de radio, teatro, televisión y cine de sus propias obras y de las de otros.
“If only I could get down to Sidcup! I've been waiting for the weather to break. He's got my papers, this man I left them with, it's got it all down there, I could prove everything.”
“Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?”
“I tend to believe that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth. [...] Certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.”
“I believe his arrest and detention by the international criminal tribunal is unconstitutional, and goes against Yugoslav and international law. They have no right to try him.”
“The government of the US has no moral authority to elect itself as the judge over human rights in Cuba, where there has not been a single case of disappearance, torture or extra-judicial execution since 1959, and where despite the economic blockade, there are levels of health, education and culture that are internationally recognised.”
“Each play was, for me, 'a different kind of failure.' And that fact, I suppose, sent me on to write the next one. (p. 15)”
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