The Jewish Week, October 21st, 2005
Merwin, Ted The Jewish Week 10-21-2005 Considering Nobel laureate Harold Pinter's oeuvre, from a Jewish perspective.
We are defined, any student of Freud will say, as much by what we reject as by what we embrace.
Harold Pinter, who just won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his bleak, existential dramas that speak to the terror that human beings inflict upon one another, has defined himself throughout his career in opposition to his Jewishness. Yet this son of a dressmaker from the East End of London has stitched banal, menacing words and phrases together in such a way that they often car...
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