2005年10月13日,英国作家哈罗德·品特因其剧作“揭示了掩盖于日常空谈下的危机,以及努力进入沉郁的封闭状态”而获得本年度诺贝尔文学奖。现年75岁的品特,是继萧伯纳之后英国最重要的剧作家,也是当代西方荒诞派戏剧在英国的重要代表。他的剧作往往刻意回避清晰的情节、明确的 On October 13, 2005, British writer Harold Pinter won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature for his play, “Revealing the Crisis Concealed in Everyday Silence, and Endeavor to Get into a Gloomy Closure.” Pinter, 75, is the foremost playwright in Britain after Shaw, and also an important representative of contemporary Western absurd theater in Britain. His plays often deliberately evade the clear plot, clear