The passing of British Playwright Harold Pinter is not a surprise. He was a cancer patient since 2002. He lost his battle against his sickness on the 24th of December in London.
Pinter remains an important ambassador of intellectual Britain as a world renown playwright and an anti-war activist denouncing the American politic of recent years. In 2005, the year of his Nobel Price attribution, he condemned in a severe declaration many injustices of the current World affairs.
Harold Pinter will be remembered as one of the most influencial dramatist of the twentieth century along other great figures like Bertolt Brecht and Samuel Beckett. He introduced a perturbation in conceiving language as a non communicative tool saying "What we hear is an indication of what we don't hear". He revolted against the grandilonquent British Theatre and played a key role in the redefinition of this Art by exploring a new and more abstract style known at the time as the creation of new plays by "Angry Young Men" which also included Edward Bond and Joe Orton.
The strange and compelling talent of Pinter produced an innovative theatre that half a century later continue to be imposed all over the World. A courageous writer who didn't mind to provoke and to be unpopular among certain elite.
Large number of articles about the work and life of Harold Pinter exist on the internet. For a good referrence of his writings i will recommend www.haroldpinter.org
You can listen to Pinter's recorded speech for the Nobel price of Litterature at the following link http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2005/pinter-lecture.html
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