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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
Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that span ...
(1930–2008), who was at the time hospitalised and unable to travel to
Stockholm
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to deliver it in person.
["Harold Pinter Taken to Hospital"]
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, 7 May 2009.[For an example of an illustrated contemporaneous news account, see Lyall]
"Playwright Takes a Prize and a Jab at U.S"
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The 46-minute videotaped lecture was projected on three large screens in front of the audience at the
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, in Stockholm, on the evening of 7 December 2005.
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's digital television channel More 4
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, in the United Kingdom, where it was introduced by Pinter's friend and fellow playwright David Hare.["Harold Pinter – Nobel Prize For Literature Speech – Art, Truth & Politics (HQ)"]
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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
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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
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(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
Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that span ...
,
Various Voices: Sixty Years of Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948–2008
'', '' Faber.co.uk'', Faber and Faber
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, 7 May 2009. Many print and online periodicals have also published the full text of Pinter's Nobel Lecture, including ''Publications of the
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'' (PMLA), in May 2006, with permission from the
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.
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
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, originator and chairman of
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, 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
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, on 2 May 2009, as part of the 5th annual PEN World Voices Festival.
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, '' PEN World Voices Festival: The New York Festival of International Literature'', Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, CUNY Graduate Center
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, 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
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'' 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
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...
", leading to "hundreds of thousands of deaths," Pinter asks: "Did they take place? And are they in all cases attributable to US foreign policy
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?" 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
Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda (; ), was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Nerud ...
("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
Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He previously served as Leader of t ...
in the International Criminal Court
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, 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).
Critical response
Pinter's Nobel Lecture has been the source of much discussion.[ In an article published in '']The Chronicle of Higher Education
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'' on 11 November 2005, entitled "Pinter's Plays, Pinter's Politics," Middlebury College
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English professor Jay Parini
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observes that "In the weeks that have passed since Harold Pinter won the Nobel Prize in Literature, there has been incessant chatter on both sides of the Atlantic, some of it unflattering," as "from the right
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, in particular, the American reaction to the Pinter award has been one of outrage," whereas "the reaction to the award from Pinter's peers––Michael Frayn
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, David Hare, Tom Stoppard
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, and others––has been uniformly positive"; in response to naysayers, Parini concludes: "it may be true this time around that the Nobel Prize in Literature was given to the right man for the right reasons. Few writers in our time have demonstrated such a passionate concern for victims of oppression, whether in the family's living room or in the torturer's faraway bunker, as Harold Pinter. And few dramatists have been so vastly influential, transforming our basic sense of what happens when we enter a theater."
In response to his videotaped Nobel Lecture broadcast on More 4
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and distributed via the internet
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, heated critical debate about Pinter spiked in the public media
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and spread throughout the blogosphere
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. Such criticism of Pinter encompassed thousands of commentaries and focused mostly on his political activism, particularly his purported "anti-Americanism" and his generally "leftist" views.[For a critical discussion of the contexts of Pinter's Nobel Lecture, see Merritt, "(Anti-)Global Pinter."]
Pinter's official, authorised biographer, Michael Billington observes that "the reactions to Pinter's Nobel Prize and Lecture" were "fascinating" and "overwhelmingly positive," though he thinks "it is worth picking out the few negative ones" as examples. He observes, "The most startling fact was that Pinter's Nobel Lecture on 7 December was totally ignored by the BBC", adding: "You would have thought that a living British dramatist's views on his art and global politics
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might have been of passing interest to a public service
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broadcaster"; yet "There was ... no reference to the speech on any of BBC TV
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's news bulletins that night or indeed on its current affairs programme, ''Newsnight
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''" (''Harold Pinter'' 424). While "in the press, there was also a handful of attacks on both the award and the Lecture," Billington dispatches criticisms by three of them: "the normally sensible Johan Hari", who "dismissed the Lecture in advance f its broadcast on Channel 4 in the UKas a 'rant' and falsely claimed that Pinter would have refused to resist Hitler
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"; "in fact," Billington says, Pinter "has repeatedly said that, had he been of age, he would have accepted conscription in World War II" (424–25). "More predictably, Christopher Hitchens
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was wheeled out to dismiss Pinter as 'a bigmouth who has strutted and fretted his hour upon the stage for far too long' ", and, finally, Billington cites Scottish historian 's "attack" on the Lecture in ''The Daily Telegraph
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'', quoting in part Ferguson's statement that in his Nobel Lecture Pinter " 'pretend that Scrimes were equivalent to those of its Communist opponents ...' "––a distortion according to both Billington and Pinter: "he never made any comparison in his speech between atrocities committed by the Soviet Union
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and China and those of America"; " 'All I ever said,' inter
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retorts, 'is that Soviet atrocities were comprehensively documented but that American actions weren't. I didn't go into comparisons as to who killed more people as if it were a contest. Ferguson distorted the whole bloody thing' " (Qtd. in Billington, ''Harold Pinter'' 425). Billington also points out that the Harold Pinter Archive in the British Library
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contains "two large boxes containing the thousands of letters Pinter received from friends, colleagues, public eminences and total strangers applauding both the prize and his political stance" (425).
The "Harold Pinter Community" Forum hosted on ''HaroldPinter.org'', Pinter's official Website, illustrates further critical debate about Pinter's politics.
''Being Harold Pinter''
Pinter's Nobel Lecture is excerpted in a dramatic work developed and performed by the politically dissident Belarus Free Theatre, which has been censored, its members arrested and prevented from performing their work publicly in their own country. ''Being Harold Pinter'' is "a collation of six Pinter plays, excerpts from his Nobel Prize speech, and letters written by political prisoners in Belarusian jails," which was performed with Pinter in the audiences in Leeds
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, England, during the Artist and Citizen: 50 Years of Performing Pinter, an international conference celebrating Pinter on the occasion of the awarding of an honorary degree to him by the University of Leeds
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, in April 2007;[ Michael Billington]
"The Importance of Being Pinter:
A New Production by the Belarus Free Theatre Reinforces the Global Resonance of the British Playwright's Political Works," '' Guardian'', Arts blog – Theatre, Guardian Media Group
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, 8 May 2009. and in London, premiering there from 11 to 23 February 2008.["Belarus Gala Evening"]
, Soho Theatre
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, 15 January 2008. It received appreciative press reviews in both Leeds and London,["Belarus Free Theatre"]
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presents Belarus Free Theatre: 11–23 February 2008," Soho Theatre
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, 29 January 2009. (Includes excerpts from press reviews of London premiere of ''Being Harold Pinter'' and ''Generation Jeans''.) including 5 stars from Pinter's official biographer Michael Billington, in his '' Guardian'' review,[ Michael Billington]
"Being Harold Pinter/Generation Jeans: 5 Stars Soho, London"
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, 8 May 2009. and 4 stars from the ''Times
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'' reviewer Sam Marlowe, who observes that "Drama doesn't come more urgently political than in the work of the Belarus Free Theatre."[Sam Marlowe]
"Being Harold Pinter/Generation Jeans at Soho Theatre"
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, Australia, beginning on 8 January 2009, two weeks after Pinter's death,["An Arresting Performance – Literally"]
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, 15 December 2008, Web
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, 7 May 2009.["Free Theatre's Performance Was Watched by Militia"]
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, 7 May 2009. (About "The Free Theatre's performance ''Being Harold Pinter'' ... shown in Minsk
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7 November.") and there are plans to bring the troupe over to perform ''Being Harold Pinter'' in New York City, as part of the Public Theater
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's Under the Radar Festival
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, according to its director Mark Russell.[John Del Signore]
"Mark Russell, Under the Radar Festival"
, interview with Mark Russell, '' Gothamist'' (Blog), Gothamist LLC, 10 January 2008, Web
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, 10 January 2008.[John Del Signore]
"Pencil This In: Theater"
, '' Gothamist'' (Blog), Gothamist LLC, 11 January 2008, Web
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, 12 January 2008.
See also
*The arts and politics A strong relationship between the arts and politics, particularly between various kinds of art and power, occurs across historical epochs and cultures. As they respond to contemporaneous events and politics, the arts take on political as well as ...
Notes
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'. Presented on video in Stockholm, Sweden. 7 December 2005. Nobel Foundation
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and Swedish Academy
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. Published as "The Nobel Lecture: Art, Truth & Politics". ''NobelPrize.org''. Nobel Foundation, 8 December 2005. Web
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. 2 October 2007. (RealPlayer streaming audio and video as well as text available). London: Faber and Faber, 2006. (10). (13). Rpt. also in ''The Essential Pinter''. New York: Grove, 2006. (Listed below.) Rpt. also in ''PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association
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'' 121 (2006): 811–18. Print. Rpt. also in ''The Pinter Review: Nobel Prize/Europe Theatre Prize Volume: 2005 – 2008''. Ed. Francis Gillen with Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2008. 5–17. (hardcover). (softcover). . Print.
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"Art, Truth and Politics: The Nobel Lecture"
'' Guardian''. Guardian Media Group
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. 2 October 2007 and 7 May 2009. ["In his video-taped Nobel acceptance speech, Harold Pinter excoriated a 'brutal, scornful and ruthless' United States. This is the full text of his address"; features links relating to Harold Pinter's 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature. (Originally part of "Special Report: The Nobel Prize for Literature: 2005 Harold Pinter". Periodically updated and re-located since 2005.)]
–––. ''The Essential Pinter: Selections from the Work of Harold Pinter''. New York: Grove, 2006. (10). (13). Print. nc. "Art, Truth & Politics: The 2005 Nobel Lecture"; 8 plays and the dramatic sketch "Press Conference"; and 10 poems.
–––. ''Various Voices: Sixty Years of Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948–2008''. 3rd ed. 1998, 2005. London: Faber, 2009. . Print.
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"The Nobel Prize in Literature 2005: Harold Pinter"
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. 4 October 2007. [Hyperlinked account. Provides links to the official Nobel Prize announcement, Bio-bibliography, Bibliography, press release, press conference, and audio and video streaming media files of the press conference and related interviews and features. These resources are accessible on the official websites of both the Nobel Prize (Nobel Foundation) and the Swedish Academy; they are periodically revised and re-located.]
Per Wästberg, Wästberg, Per.
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Allen-Mills, Tony.
"This Pinter Guy Could Turn Into a Pain"
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''. News International, 6 November 2005. Web
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. 15 March 2009. Belatedly, Americans are wising up to a Nobel menace, says Tony Allen-Mills."
Anderson, Porter.
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At the Prize of Europe, the Playwright Is All Politics." ''CNN
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. 2 October 2007.
Billington, Michael.
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–––. ''Harold Pinter''. London: Faber, 2007. (13). Updated 2nd ed. of ''The Life and Work of Harold Pinter''. 1996. London: Faber, 1997. (10). Print.
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A New Production by the Belarus Free Theatre Reinforces the Global Resonance of the British Playwright's Political Works." '' Guardian'', Arts blog – Theatre. Guardian Media Group
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Shades of Beckett As Ailing Playwright Delivers Powerful Nobel Lecture." '' Guardian''. Guardian Media Group
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. 2 October 2007.
Bond, Paul.
"Harold Pinter's Artistic Achievement"
''World Socialist Web Site
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. 2 October 2007.
"Bush and Blair Slated by Pinter"
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''. BBC, 7 December 2005. Web
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. 2 October 2007. (Features related links.)
Chrisafis, Angelique, and Imogen Tilden
"Pinter Blasts 'Nazi America' and 'deluded idiot' Blair"
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. 2 October 2007.
Eden, Richard, and Tim Walker.
"Mandrake: A Pinteresque Silence"
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. 2 October 2007. (original URL). ''Bookrags: HighBeam Research
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Freed, Donald.
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Christopher Hitchens, Hitchens, Christopher
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Howard, Jennifer.
"Nobel Prize in Literature Goes to Harold Pinter, British Playwright Widely Studied in Academe"
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Lyall, Sarah
"Playwright Takes a Prize and a Jab at U.S."
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