Word: pinter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Donne, every man is an island. We make beachheads on these islands, advance with deceptive ease for a few hundred yards, and then run into an impenetrable rain forest. No modern playwright has been more acutely conscious of the resistant density of the human personality than Harold Pinter...
...same enthusiastic way that he might recommend an excellent little restaurant slightly off the tourist track. The Peopled Wound is valuable not because it makes some intuitive new leap of insight but because it gathers in one convenient place most of what has been said and thought about Pinter. The son of a Jewish tailor, Pinter grew up in the congested, polyglot and intensely familistic world of London's East End. His mastery of English contains elements of a quasi alien's act of assimilative will, an acute tuning of the ear to the language of success...
...scenario is a combination of Harold Pinter and introductory civics. Leo (Marcello Mastroianni) is the son of a deceased diplomat who arrives in London to live in his father's former residence, an opulent mansion surrounded by slums. The neighborhood teems and festers while Leo laments his own lethargy. "I can't get involved," he moans, "what can I do?" He passes most of his days pressed against an upstairs window, telescope to his eye, watching the human comedy unfold in the shops and tenement windows across the way. When he is not peeping, he is halfheartedly fighting...
...together with his earlier books, Come Back, Dr. Caligari and Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts, the 14 stories of City Life establish him as the master experimentalist of his genre. He is a writer who may well be changing the definition of a short story the way Beckett, Ionesco and Pinter have changed the definition of a play...