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Kite Flying by Jalal Vaziri
Description
The Hothouse by Harold Pinter is a dark satire set within a state-run mental institution, where bureaucratic incompetence, moral corruption, and concealed violence shape the action. Beneath its comic surface lies a sharp critique of administrative systems that reduce individuals to statistics, erasing identity under procedural authority. The volume often published alongside it includes A Slight Ache, a tragicomic chamber piece focusing on a married couple whose fragile stability is unsettled by the husband’s growing fear of aging, displacement, and existential insignificance. In both works, Pinter transforms menace into an internal, psychological condition rather than an external threat, exposing how institutions and private anxieties alike destabilize human identity.
- Pages: 168
- ISBN : 9786005033212
- Persian Title : کتاب درد مختصر و آسایشگاه اثر هارولد پینتر
- Language(s) : Persian (Farsi)