Introducción a la Literatura Inglesa: 7. SECCIÓN B (Literatura inglesa 1960-2000)

SECCIÓN B, unidad 7: Literatura inglesa 1960-2000

Algunos temas sobre autores (no precisamente secundarios) que no vemos en clase. Recordad que la Sección B no entra para tema de redacción, pero puede entrar para preguntas cortas y comentario.

Con Salman Rushdie terminamos el tema 7, y pasamos al tema 8

y último de la Sección B

SALMAN RUSHDIE (1947)

International and multicultural English-language novelist, born in the Muslim community of Bombay; studied and lived in England; international best-selling novelist with Midnight's Children and Shame, novels on Indian "magic realism"; often divorced and remarried; then sentenced to death for blasphemy, in absentia, by the Iranian ayatollahs in 1988, victim of a world-wide Muslim persecution and scandal; lived in hiding under police protection since 1989; Austrian State Prize for European Literature 1993; knighted 2007; Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Françaises; critic of Islamist totalitarianism and intolerance, icon of Western liberalism and of a global postmodernist multicultural and open civilization.

Works

Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children. Novel. 1981. (Booker Prize for 1981; Booker of Bookers awarded 1993)
_____. Shame. Novel. 1983. Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger.
_____. The Satanic Verses. Novel. 1988. (Whitbread Prize. Germany's Author of the Year Award 1989)
_____. Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991. 1991.
_____. The Moor's Last Sigh. Novel. 1995.
_____. Shalimar the Clown. Novel. 2005.*
_____. Midnight's Children. Screenplay.
_____. Joseph Anton: A Memoir. 2012.
_____ Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights. Novel. 2015. (On Averroes and 1001 Nights).
_____. The Golden House. Novel. New York: Random House, 2017.* (Trump caricature).
_____. Quichotte: A Novel. 2019.

Unas notas sobre Salman Rushdie.

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NIVEL AVANZADO:

Critical notes on Salman Rushdie.

Angels and Devils: Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses (BBC).

Postcolonial and Postmodern English literature

Otro novelista del inglés internacional: el anglo-japonés Kazuo Ishiguro, Premio Nobel de literatura 2017.

Novels by Kazuo Ishiguro:

_____. An Artist of the Floating World. (Whitbread Prize)
_____. The Remains of the Day. 1989. (Booker Prize)
_____. The Unconsoled. 1995. (Cheltenham Prize)
_____. When We Were Orphans. 2000.
_____. Never Let Me Go. 2005.

Video: Nobel Lecture by Kazuo Ishiguro

Otros premios Nobel de habla inglesa de las últimas décadas:

1983 William Golding (UK)
1986 Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)
1991 Nadine Gordimer (Sudáfrica)
1995 Seamus Heaney (UK)
2001 V. S. Naipaul (Trinidad/UK)
2003 J. M. Coetzee (South Africa)
2005 Harold Pinter (UK)
2007 Doris Lessing (UK/Africa)
2013 Alice Munro (Canada)

2021 Abdulrazak Gurnah

—más los estadounidenses del Tema 8.

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TOM STOPPARD (1937)
British dramatist and screenplay writer, b. Czechoslovakia, childhood in Singapore; journalist and dramatist, liberal anti-Communist activist.

Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Drama. 1966.
_____. The Real Inspector Hound. Drama. 1968.
_____. Jumpers. Drama. Performed by the National Theatre, 1972. (Fascism).
_____. Travesties. Drama. Prod. RSC, 1975. (Joyce, Tzara, Lenin, & Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest).
_____. Every Good Boy Deserves Favour. Musical play. 1977.
_____ . The Real Thing. Drama. 1982.
_____. Brazil. Screenplay for Terry Gilliam's film. 1985.
_____. Hapgood. Drama. 1988.
_____. Arcadia. Drama. 1993.
_____. The Invention of Love. Drama. 1997. (On Housman and Wilde).
_____. The Coast of Utopia. Drama. 2002. (On Russian liberal exiles).
_____. Rock n Roll. Drama. 2006.
_____. Darkside. Radio play based on Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon. 2013.
_____. The Hard Problem. Drama. 2015.

Norman, Marc, and Tom Stoppard. Shakespeare in Love. Screenplay. London: Faber, 1999.

A scene from Shakespeare in Love:

- Some notes on Tom Stoppard.

NIVEL AVANZADO:

TOM STOPPARD'S ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD.

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NIVEL AVANZADO:

- Tom Stoppard (& Pink Floyd): Darkside.

- "Tom Stoppard." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Stoppard

2015

"Travesties." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travesties

2012

Nuestra Facultad ha premiado a nuestro propio Tom Stoppard de Aragón, el actor y dramaturgo José Luis Esteban, que también participó hace unos días en "la noche de las letras vivientes". Aquí puede verse su discurso sobre la literatura y su estudio.

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HAROLD PINTER (1930-2008)

British modernist dramatist, b. East London, son of a Jewish tailor; itinerant actor, success as dramatist of incommunication; m. Vivian Merchant 1956, successful dramatic director, screenwriter, and actor, became modernist icon in the Beckett/Kafka tradition of existentialist intellectual drama of miscommunication and human impenetrability; 1 son; unhappy marriage and adulterous affairs, affair and 2nd marriage with Lady Antonia Fraser 1975-, grand social life; exwife sunk into resentment and terminal alcoholism, estranged from him after divorce. Pinter went from existential to political dramatist; leftist outspoken critic of Blair and Bush, human rights activist; Nobel Prize for Literature 2005, died of cancer.

Works

Pinter, Harold. The Room. Drama. 1957.
_____. The Birthday Party. Drama. 1957.
_____. The Caretaker. Drama. 1959.
_____. The Collection. Drama. 1960.
_____. A Night Out. Drama. 1961.
_____. The Examination. Drama. 1963.
_____. The Lover. Drama. 1963.
_____. The Homecoming. Drama. 1964.
_____. The Basement. TV drama. 1967.
_____. Landscape. Drama. 1968.
_____. Silence. Drama. 1969.
_____. Old Times. Drama. 1971.
_____. No Man's Land. TV drama. 1975.
_____. Betrayal. TV drama. 1978. Feature film 1981.
_____. Family Voices. Drama. 1981.
_____. One for the Road. Drama. 1984.
_____. Mountain Language. Drama. 1988.
_____. The French Lieutenant's Woman. Screenplay based on John Fowles' novel. 1982.
_____. A Kind of Alaska. Drama. 1982.
_____. Ashes to Ashes. Drama. 1996.
_____. "Arte, verdad y política." (Nobel Prize speech 2005).