Thursday, December 06, 2007
How to Give the Nobel to a Proper Writer
The famously assiduous Dave Lull sends me this article. Why does the Nobel Prize go to 'socially responsible' novelists rather than John Ashbery? Ange Mlinko explains why - he's too good. Nice essay with lovely quotes - 'only time will consent to have anything to do with us'.
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
Marilynne.
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ReplyDeleteKnowing that the suggestions I offer are bound to create outrage, I feel that silence is better than submission!
ReplyDeleteI agree with Marilynne, but the Nobel givers tend to like a bigger oeuvre.
ReplyDeleteAlso agree about the award now relating more to politics than literary merit. Harold Pinter? C'mon!
i once wanted to win the Booker, then thought it seemed petty and trivial. So i moved onto the Nobel, then considered, 'these are the swine who rejected Tolstoy, Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce...'
ReplyDeleteKudos to them for admitting Eliot & Camus but the omission of Wallace St is staggering. No earthly crown will do.