HAROLD PINTER: THE CARETAKER - ISBN: 978-81-229-0372-0

Details: The Caretaker is a play that deals with the relationship that develops among three characters, who happen to get together and involve and evolve adequately. Though they do not reveal beyond so much as is compulsion of the play during the course of their interaction, the situation too develops alongside in a gripping action. We can see his poetic faculty coming into play, when he writes his dialogues for different characters. These dialogues are not only characteristic of the individual, but also have more than the surface level of meaning; and besides, they are short and loaded with meaning like all poetry is. The gripping tension of the play develops from the very first scene, where hardly a word is spoken for the first moments of the play after curtain rises. Dr. S.C. Narula has been a distinguished teacher of English language and literature in the University of Delhi, where he taught for more than thirty years. He is an elected fellow of the International Academy of Poets in Cambridge, England and listed in the International Who?s Who of Poetry, Cambridge. He has long association with the Sahitya Akademi, the premier Academy of Letters of India and has written several articles and reviews for the official journal Indian Literature. He has presented learned academic papers in conferences where he has been a University invitee.