Борбата за доминация между половете в търсене на идентичност в пиесите на Пинтър
The Struggle for Dominance between the Sexes in Search of Identity in the Plays of Pinter

Summary/Abstract: “Harold Pinter’s Dramaturgy and Its Perception in Bulgaria” by Stoyan Georgiev is a doctoral dissertation, registered at the Institute of Literature at the Bulgarian Academy of Science. The third chapter, from which is the offered here fragment, is under the title: “Functions of deception in Pinter’s plays”. Deception can be revealed in all meaningful and structural levels in his works. One of these levels is the level of the characters, whose most distinct feature is that they lie as they breathe, because the nice and interesting lie is a necessity for them, a real art, which they enhance all the time. Although it looks like a paradox from the first sight, deception determines the composition of most Pinter’s plays as well. Some of them are called by critics “traps” not by accident. Language has lost its communicative abilities and thus has betrayed its true purpose. It is incapable of carrying meaning, has become not up to par and is an object of disintegration.

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