Ashes to Ashes - Couverture souple

Pinter, Harold

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0571190278 ISBN 13 : 9780571190270

Editeur : Faber and Faber, 1996

Synopsis

Set in a room in a country house, and centred around Devlin and Rebecca, a couple in their forties, this play is an evocation of the arbitrariness and cruelty of state-power. Pinter's world is one of brutality and power but also one of anxiety and insecurity.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Harold Pinter was born in London in 1930. He lived with Antonia Fraser from 1975 and they married in 1980. In 1995 he won the David Cohen British Literature Prize, awarded for a lifetime's achievement in literature. In 1996 he was given the Laurence Olivier Award for a lifetime's achievement in theatre. In 2002 he was made a Companion of Honour for services to literature. In 2005 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and, in the same year, the Wilfred Owen Award for Poetry and the Franz Kafka Award (Prague). In 2006 he was awarded the Europe Theatre Prize and, in 2007, the highest French honour, the Légion d'honneur. He died in December 2008.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Faber and Faber
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0571190278
• ISBN 13: 9780571190270
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible