HAROLD PINTER: FROM POETICS TO POLITICS

Year 2006, Issue: 15, 59 - 66, 13.02.2006

Dilek İnan

Abstract

İngiliz ve Dünya Tiyatrosuna katkılarından dolayı 2005 yılında Harold Pinter’a Nobel Edebiyat ödülü verilmiştir. Pinter yarım asırdır tiyatroya hizmet etmektedir, 1980lerden günümüze kadar, tiyatro kimliğini politik kimliğiyle zenginleştirmiştir. Yarım asırlık dönemde, düzyazı, şiir, tiyatro oyunu, radyo oyunu ve film senaryosu gibi farklı türlerde eserler üretmiştir. Edebiyat türleri arasındaki geçişleri ve değişimleri O’nun her zaman daha fazla izleyici kitlesine ulaşmasına imkân vermiştir. Edebiyat eleştirmenlerini ve izleyicileri şaşırtmış, büyülemiş, kızdırmış hatta hayal kırıklığına uğratmıştır. Kısa zamanda İngiliz Tiyatrosunun en önde gelen yazan olmuştur. Bu çalışma, 1950-2000 yılları arasında geçen bir üretkenliğin evrimini ve ‘Pinteresque’ kavramını İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatına kazandıran Harold Pinter’ın yazarlık hayatında şiirsel ve gizemli başlayan üslubunun giderek artan politik söylemlerinin örneklerini ve nedenlerini izleyecektir.

Keywords

Harold Pinter, İngiliz Tiyatrosu, Politik Tiyatro, Dil

HAROLD PINTER: FROM POETICS TO POLITICS

Abstract

Harold Pinter was gluen the Nobel Prize /or Literature in 2005 for his contributlons to Brltfsh and contemporary drama. Pinter has been a theatrical institution for hal/ a century, he has reuolutionised his theatre by being a conscientious objector in pub/ic and a politlcaf actiuist since the 1980s. He has explored di/ferent genres lncluding prose and poetry, plays for stage, radio and screen. His crossouer from one medium to another, his deliberate decision to write /or more than one medlum, has gluen him the opportunity to reach the potential mass audience. He has shocked bewifdered, disappointed, and astonished audiences and critics. He swiftly became accepted as Britain's premier dramatist. This paper traces the euolution that Plnter has gone through /rom the early 1950s until the 2000s. Additionatly, the paper Identifles Harofd Pinter's 'Pinteresque' style - a term whlch enters English Language and Literature after him and also exemplify and reason Plnter's change in his styfe from poetical to politicaf. 

Keywords

Harold Pinter, British Theatre, Politica/ Theatre, Language

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