by Harold Pinter · Edicions Bromera, S.L. · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788498240870
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This volume collects two masterpieces by Nobel Prize in Literature winner Harold Pinter: 'The Birthday Party' and 'The Caretaker'. Both works explore themes of power struggles, the ambiguity of victory and defeat, and psychological tension. In 'The Birthday Party', Stanley Webber hides in a seaside boarding house to escape a dark past, until the arrival of two mysterious emissaries triggers a series of unsettling questions. 'The Caretaker' tells the story of Aston, who rescues a tramp and invites him to live with him, leading to a complex dynamic of manipulation and loyalty.
Harold Pinter was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964) and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1971), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Trial (1993) and Sleuth (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television and film productions of his own and others' works.
