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Quoth Harold Pinter: "I have no idea why they gave me the award." The award, of course, was the Nobel Prize for ... well, supposedly for literature. In the case of Harold Pinter, however, literature had nothing do with the prize. How could it? By our reckoning, Pinter has done nothing notable in that direction since The Caretaker 0959). Even at his early best (The Birthday Party, say, or The Dumb Waiter, both 1957), Pinter's was always a small and highly derivative literary gift--more of a handout, really. Indeed, we would suggest that his talent was not so much literary as histrionic, one of literature's degeneracies. What Pinter dispensed was a certain tone--an atmospherics of menace, borrowed largely…
Source: HighBeam Research, Earth to Stockholm ...(Harold Pinter, Nobel Literary Prize)