Description

• Title:
  Eroticism and Justice: Harold Pinter’s Screenplay of Ian McEwan’s The Comfort of Strangers
• Creator:
  Mirowska, Paulina
• Contributor:
  University of Łódź
• Description:
  The article centres upon Pinter’s creative adaptation of McEwan’s deeply allusive and disquieting text probing, amongst others, the intricacies and tensions of gender relations and sexual intimacy. It examines the screenplay-regarded by many critics as not merely an adaptation of the novel but another, very powerful work of art-addressing Pinter’s method as an adapter and highlighting the artist’s imaginative attempts at fostering a better appreciation of the connections between authoritarian impulses, love and justice. Similarly to a number of other Pinter filmscripts and plays of the 1980s and 1990s, the erotic and the lethal alarmingly intersect in this screenplay where the ostensibly innocent-an unmarried English couple on a holiday in Venice, who are manipulated, victimized and, ultimately, destroyed-are subtly depicted as partly complicit in their own fates.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  This content is open access.
• Date:
  2015.04.29;
  2013.11.01
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Text Matters - A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture;3
• Identifier:
  2083-2931;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/8500 ;
  2084-574X;
  10.2478/texmat-2013-0033
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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• Type:
  other