Review of Kafka and Pinter: Shadow-Boxing, by Raymond Armstrong

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Theatre Journal

Publication Date

2000

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Published in: Theatre Journal 52:(4): 597-598.

Abstract

The writings of Czech poet/novelist Franz Kafka have long been influential to British poet/play wright Harold Pinter. Kafka's dark, oppressive worlds are echoed in Pinter's early comedies of menace, and in his later plays depicting political and social repression. Raymond Armstrong com pares the patri-filial conflicts in the works of Kafka and Pinter, and examines how Kafka's portrayals of father-son struggles have influenced

Volume

52

Issue

4

First Page

597

Last Page

598

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