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There was nothing ailing about Harold Pinter’s passionate and astonishing Nobel lecture, which mixed moral vigour with forensic detail, reports Michael Billington.
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/ 8 December 2005
There was something oddly Beckettian about Harold Pinter’s Nobel lecture which now is blazing its way across the world’s media. It was Beckettian in that Pinter sat in a wheelchair, with a rug over his knees and framed by an image of his younger self, delivering his sombre message: memories of Hamm in Beckett’s Endgame came to mind.