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The Birthday Party (1957)

by Harold Pinter

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Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmare.The Birthday Party was first performed in 1958 and is now a modern classic, produced and studied throughout the world.
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انقدر پرده‌ی دوم سانسور داشت که نفهمیدم چی شد😐 نسخه‌ی انگلیسی‌ش هم پیدا نکردم اگه کسی داره برام بفرسته ( )
  Mahdi.Lotfabadi | Oct 16, 2022 |
i liked this, but i think i will have to read it about five more times to understand it. ( )
  J.Flux | Aug 13, 2022 |
Pinter mixes an acute awareness of realism through the comon speech of his characters with a harrowing insight into the human condition to terrifying results. I am unaware of whether it is his start realism, ambiguity of theme or unanticipated haunting which develops in the reader, and one would pressume audience, the sinster discomfort with which one attempts to leave the play (in that 'The Birthday Party' is not a drama one can remove from one's consciousness with any ease). As is quite obvious by its position in the Canon, a masterpiece of modernist drama.
1 vote HannahKiwi | Feb 25, 2009 |
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Harold Pinterprimary authorall editionscalculated
Davico Bonino, GuidoIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
del Bono, LauraTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Lång Carl-OlofTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Liedholm Lars-ErikTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Nissim, ElioTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Ritter, JohnForewordsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Sang, JoelTÕlkija.secondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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