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Al-Jazeera interviews Harold Pinter Part 2

On its second day of operation, Al-Jazeera English's Riz Khan interviews 2005 Nobel Literature laureate Harold Pinter. This is Part 2.  
 
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kfarm2001 (3 months ago) Show Hide
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Truth will not be able to hide from history. Thank you Harold and may many others follow your example.
alippap (5 months ago) Show Hide
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kfarm2001 (8 months ago) Show Hide
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Mountain Language
Party Time
great short plays.
sleeplessintokyo (9 months ago) Show Hide
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thanks for the clip.. i watch Pinters work closely..
but i couldnt help it ! but am i the only one realizing the caller "George in Jerusalem" has an Indian accent!
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I don't understand how you can say Pinter is a great author. Apart from saying all human beings are at each others throats what do we learn from his work about human nature?

I found The Homecoming tedious and Celebration downright bad.
He's a misanthropist at heart. Humanity is more complex than he would admit.

If anyone can say how he's on the same level as Chekov, Ibsen, O Neal I'd really like to know.
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I used to share a similar opinion of Pinter's work. Nothing I say here could convince you to value that which he has written; but I can say I used to be in your boat. If you want to recognise the worth of his work, you'll find it. If you don't want to, you won't.
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I also think it is wholly unfair of you to believe Pinter has a limited view on humanity. I have read and seen much of Pinter's work, as well as paid attention to interviews such as this one; I've read his essays and his poetry. I find very little evidence to the fact that he's a misanthrope with a limited world-view. I find the exact opposite, in fact.
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One last thing: I've studied theatre for a majority of my life, and I have a deep respect for all three of the playwrights you mentioned. Pinter, however, is none of them, nor was he meant to be them. He didn't even try to be them. As long as you concentrate on how Pinter is not like Ibsen, you will never fully realise the various scope and uses possible with theatre.
Please don't be guilty of the myopia you've so erroneously ascribed to Pinter.
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People do not realize that Harold Pinter was Jewish and heartily condemned Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine and Israel's current brutal treatment of Gaza. Pinter was one of 105 prominent Jews who signed a We're not celebrating Israel's Anniversary petition in April of 2008.
The final paragraph of this petition reads as follows " We cannot celebrate the birthday of a state founded on terrorism, massacres and the dispossession of another people from their land.

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