pinter's poetry

[malignd at aol.com]

<<have to say his nobel award sounds to me like the one given to 
gunther grass--the man who's better days appear to be behind him>>

I'm not sure I agree, but, if true, it certainly wouldn't be the first 
time the award was given for past efforts; isn't the Nobel, as often as 
not, a crowning of a career?  Faulkner?  Hemingway?  They were 
certainly past their primes when they received the Nobel.  Hemingway, 
if I remember, had just written Old Man and the Sea, which is an awful 
book.

I also think you're missing a difference between drama and prose 
fiction, which is that drama can be produced anew again and again.  
Fiction can be read again and again, of course, but, whereas it may be 
true (I don't know) that Grass has become unread, Pinter has been 
consistently produced and has never fallen into disregard.

Also, I think you're wrong.  Pinter's most famous plays are the ones 
that got him his reputation, true; but his late plays--small, short, 
intimate--are masterful.

There was a Pinter festival in NY a few years back, a broad 
presentation of new and old plays.  I don't know if you went, but there 
was nothing dated about the old stuff, nothing lacking in the new.  It 
was all of a piece.  Pinter's a giant and very deserving.



-----Original Message-----
From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:18:31 -0400
Subject: pinter's poetry

    have to say his nobel award sounds to me like the one given to 
gunther grass--the man who's better days appear to be behind him
  
  oh, and the poetry he increasingly is writing is godawful. very shrill 
and the milsoveic angle is pretty disgusting
  
 Pamuk would've been a better choice IMHO
  
 Rich