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Pinter, Harold

(London 1930-2008 London) : Dramatiker, Regisseur, Nobelpreisträger

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Chronology Entries (1)

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1 1977 Ooi, Vicki Cheng Har. Pinter in Cantonese [ID D32024].
In my production of The caretaker by Harold Pinter I did use different varieties of Cantonese to simulate the different registers and idioms used in the original. Many of the technical terms for tools and furnishing materials have no exact equivalent in the Chinese vocabulary. In some cases a verbal translation can be achieved, but to little purpose as the whole significance is lost in translation.
The treatment of Davies shocked the Chinese audience when I produced the play in Hong Kong. It set up a very strong conflict of sympathies and one which I feel is probably more intense than was originally intended. Many of the obscenities and expletives have, to remain effective, to be changed to contexts of sex, or of incest, and even into such wholesale curses as would involve the total extinction of a family of clan before they can achieve the intended effect of shock.
Pinter is especially difficult to translate not only because he uses words meticulously and with amazing virtuosity, but because he uses words as a dramatic strategy, constantly reminding his audience of the presence of sub-textual meaning, by weaving an intricate arabesque with what would seem to be otherwise unremarkable words.
Pinter's plays take on the quality of the surreal. Fully to appreciate this surrealistic quality one has to be willing to acknowledge the parts that are overt, and to accept the tentative. And it is this demand on the audience which makes Pinter particularly difficult to put across to a Chinese audience. Even in a western context, Pinter isn't an easy playwright to accept. But a Chinese audience is probably more stubbornly insistent on fact and rationality, and is less prepared to play a teasing game with the merely possible and the tentative. This was a problem I faced when I first suggested producing The caretaker in Cantonese. The way I chose to do it was faithfully to reproduce the rhythm of the speeches : I found that when the tones, rhythm, and pauses of the original were reproduced faithfully, much of the pressure, tactics and moments of tension and decision could be communicated.
  • Document: Ooi, Vicki Cheng Har. Pinter in Cantonese : language, stage and meaning. In : Sydney studies in English, vol. 2 (1976-1977). (Pint1, Publication)
  • Person: Ooi, Vicki Cheng-har

Bibliography (4)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 1970 [Pinter, Harold]. Pinte xi ju xuan ji. Hanuode Pinte zhuan ; Liu Huiliang yi. (Taibei : Jing sheng, 1970). (Jing sheng bian yi wen ku. Dan jiang xi yang xian dai xi ju yi cong).品特戲劇選集
[Enthält] :
Kan fang zi de ren. Übersetzung von Pinter, Harold. The caretaker : a play. (London : Methuen, 1960). [Uraufführung Arts Theatre Club, London, 1960]. 看房子的人
Zhong hui gu li. Übersetzung von Pinter, Harold. The homecoming. (London : Methuen, 1965). [Erstaufführung Aldwych Theatre, London, 1965]. 重回故里 		Publication / Pint4
2 1980-1985 [Pinter, Harold]. Kan guan ren. Pinte ; Xu Zhen yi, Xie Zhenyuan jiao. In : Wai guo xian dai pai zuo pin xuan. Vol. 3 [ID D16726]. Übersetzung von Pinter, Harold. The caretaker : a play. (London : Methuen, 1960). [Uraufführung Arts Theatre Club, London, 1960].
看管人 		Publication / YuanK2.47
  • Cited by: Wai guo xian dai pai zuo pin xuan. Yuan Kejia, Dong Hengxun, Zheng Kelu xuan bian. Vol. 1-4. (Shanghai : Shanghai wen yi chu ban she, 1980-1985). [Übersetzungen ausländischer Literatur des 20. Jh.].
    外国现代派作品选
    Vol. 1 : [Modern literature].
    [Enthält] :
    Biao xian zhu yi. [Expressionism]. 表现主义
    Wei lai zhu yi. [Futurism]. 未来主义
    Vol. 2 :
    Yi shi liu. [Stream of consicousness]. 意识流
    Chao xian shi zhu yi. [Surrealism]. 超现实主义
    Cun zai zhu yi. [Extistentialism]. 存在主义
    [Enthält : Übersetzung von Woolf, Virginia. The mark on the wall und Auszüge aus Mrs. Dalloway.]
    Vol. 3 :
    Huang dan wen xue [Absurd literature]. 荒诞文学
    Xin xiao shuo. [The new novel]. 新小说
    Kua diao de yi dai. [Beat generation]. 垮掉的一代
    Hei se you mo. [Black humor]. 黑色幽默
    Vol. 4 : [Modern literature]. (YuanK2, Published)
  • Person: Xie, Zhenyuan
  • Person: Xu, Zhen
3 1981 [Pinter, Harold]. Ya shi. Xialuo Pinte ; Huang Jinping dao yan ; Jian Wanming fan yi. (Xianggang : Xianggang hua ju tuan, 1981). (Xianggang hua ju tuan ju ben ; 28. Xianggang hua ju tuan ju mu, 1980-1981). Übersetzung von Pinter, Harold. The dumb waiter. In : Pinter, Harold. The birthday party and other plays. (London : Methuen, 1959). [Erstaufführung Hampstead Theatre Club, 1960].
啞侍
[Enthält] : Qing ren. Xialuo Pinte ; Xu Yongxuan dao yan ; Zhou Bei fan yi ; Fu Yuemei dao yan ; Zhu Yingru bian ju. Übersetzung von Pinter, Harold. The lover. In : Pinter, Harold. The collection and The lover. (London : Methuen, 1962).
情人 		Publication / Pint5
4 1987 [Pinter, Harold]. Jin zhi xi : Pinte wu tai zuo pin ji. (Taibei : Huang guan chu ban she, 1987). (Huang guan cong shu ; 1422). Übersetzung von Pinter, Harold. Old times. (London : Methuen, 1971). [Erstaufführung durch die Royal Shakespeare Company, Aldwych Theatre, London 1971].
今之昔 : 品特舞台作品集 		Publication / Pint2

Secondary Literature (2)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 1977 Ooi, Vicki Cheng Har. Pinter in Cantonese : language, stage and meaning. In : Sydney studies in English, vol. 2 (1976-1977). Publication / Pint1
  • Cited by: Asien-Orient-Institut Universität Zürich (AOI, Organisation)
  • Person: Ooi, Vicki Cheng-har
2 1994 Liao, Benrui. Haluo Pinte xi ju yan jiu. = A critical study of Harold Pinter's drama. (Taibei : Shu lin chu ban gong si, 1994). (Xi ju cong shu ; 4).
哈洛品特戲劇研究 		Publication / Pint3