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"Art, Truth and Politics" (also referred to and published as "Art, Truth & Politics" and ''Art, Truth and Politics'') is the Nobel Lecture delivered on video by the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature Harold Pinter (1930–2008), who was at the time hospitalised and unable to travel to Stockholm to deliver it in person.〔("Harold Pinter Taken to Hospital" ), ''BBC News'', BBC, 30 November 2005, Web, 7 May 2009.〕〔For an example of an illustrated contemporaneous news account, see Lyall, ("Playwright Takes a Prize and a Jab at U.S" ), which appeared in both ''New York Times'' and the ''International Herald Tribune'', The New York Times Company, 8 December 2009, Web, 9 May 2009 (photograph ); other national newspapers featured similar photographs of the audience watching these screens.〕 The 46-minute videotaped lecture was projected on three large screens in front of the audience at the Swedish Academy, in Stockholm, on the evening of 7 December 2005.〔 It was simultaneously transmitted on Channel 4's digital television channel More 4, in the United Kingdom, where it was introduced by Pinter's friend fellow playwright David Hare.〔("Harold Pinter – Nobel Prize For Literature Speech – Art, Truth & Politics (HQ)" ), introduced by David Hare, More 4, Channel 4 (UK), 7 December 2005, ''Google Video'', (posted) 16 November 2008. Web. Television. (clip posted by "Skylight Pictures" ("49:35 – Nov 16, 2008"). )〕〔Coincidentally, More 4 was launched by Channel Four Television Corporation on Pinter's 75th birthday, 10 October 2005, 3 days before the announcement of his winning the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature.〕 Soon after its videotaped delivery and simulcast, the full text and streaming video formats were posted for the public on the Nobel Prize and Swedish Academy official websites. A privately printed limited edition, ''Art, Truth and Politics: The Nobel Lecture'', was published by Faber and Faber on 16 March 2006.〔Pinter's "Nobel Lecture: Art, Truth & Politics" is posted online on the official website of the Nobel Prize, ''nobelprize.org''. All in-text parenthetical references are to the Faber and Faber publication, ''Art, Truth & Politics''.〕 It is also published in ''The Essential Pinter'', by Grove Press (on 10 October 2006, Pinter's 76th birthday); in the "Appendix" of ''Harold Pinter'', the revised and enlarged edition of Pinter's official authorised biography by Michael Billington (Faber, 2007); and in the 3rd edition of Harold Pinter's collection ''Various Voices'', published posthumously (Faber, 2009).〔For publication details, see Harold Pinter, ''(Various Voices: Sixty Years of Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948–2008 )'', ''Faber.co.uk'', Faber and Faber, 7 May 2009, Web, 7 May 2009.〕 Many print and online periodicals have also published the full text of Pinter's Nobel Lecture, including ''Publications of the Modern Language Association'' (PMLA), in May 2006, with permission from the Nobel Foundation. DVD and VHS video recordings of Pinter's Nobel Lecture (without Hare's introduction) are produced and distributed by Illuminations. This video recording of the lecture was introduced by Pinter's close friend, the writer Salman Rushdie, originator and chairman of PEN World Voices, and shown publicly in the United States for the first time at the Harold Pinter Memorial Celebration: A Tribute to Harold Pinter, at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, of The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, on 2 May 2009, as part of the 5th annual PEN World Voices Festival.〔("Events: PEN World Voices Festival: Harold Pinter Memorial Celebration: Updated Schedule" ), ''PEN World Voices Festival: The New York Festival of International Literature'', Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, CUNY Graduate Center, 29 April 2009, Web, 7 May 2009.〕〔Cf. ("May 2, 2009: Tribute to Harold Pinter" ), ''The Fifth Annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, 27 April – 3 May 2009'', PEN American Center (pen.org), 29 April 2009, Web, 7 May 2009.〕 The lecture caused much discussion, including criticism. =="Art, Truth and Politics": The Nobel Lecture== Speaking with obvious difficulty in the lecture while seated in a wheelchair, Pinter distinguishes between the search for truth in art and the avoidance of truth in politics (5–10).〔 He describes his own artistic process of creating ''The Homecoming'' and ''Old Times'', following an initial line or word or image, calling "the author's position" an "odd one" as, experiencing the "strange moment … of creating characters who up to that moment have had no existence," he must "play a never-ending game with them, cat and mouse, blind man's buff, hide and seek" during which "the search for the truth … has to be faced, right there, on the spot." Distinguishing among his plays ''The Birthday Party'', ''Mountain Language'', and ''Ashes to Ashes'', he segues into his transitions from "the search for truth" in art and "the entirely different set of problems" facing the artist in "Political theatre" to the avoidance of seeking "truth" in "power politics" (5–9). He asserts: Charging the United States with having "supported and in many cases engendered every right wing military dictatorship in the world after the end of the Second World War", leading to "hundreds of thousands of deaths," Pinter asks: "Did they take place? And are they in all cases attributable to US foreign policy?" Then he answers his own question: "The answer is yes, they did take place, and they are attributable to American foreign policy. But you wouldn't know it" (9–10). Revisiting arguments from his political essays and speeches of the past decade, Pinter reiterates: In imagery recalling his description of "speech" as "a constant stratagem to cover nakedness", Pinter adds: Toward the end of the lecture, after reading two poems referring to "blood in the streets", "deaths", "dead bodies", and "death" by fellow Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda ("I'm Explaining a Few Things") and himself ("Death"), in a whimsically humble gesture, Pinter offers to "volunteer" for the "job" of "speech writer" for President George W. Bush, penning a ruthless message of fierce aggression masquerading as moral struggle of good versus evil yet finally proffering the "authority" of his (Bush's) "fist" (17–22). Pinter demands prosecution of Tony Blair in the International Criminal Court, while pointing out, with irony, that he would do the same for Bush had he not refused to "ratify" that Court (18). Pinter concludes his Nobel Lecture with a call for "unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies" as "a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all," one which he regards as "in fact mandatory," for, he warns, "If such a determination is not embodied in our political vision we have no hope of restoring what is so nearly lost to us – the dignity of man" (23–24). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Art, Truth and Politics」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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