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'.
# posted by Bryan Appleyard : 7:37 AM
5 Comments:
At December 06, 2007 10:40 AM,
Nige said…
Marilynne.
At December 06, 2007 10:44 AM,
Bryan Appleyard said…
Shirley
At December 06, 2007 12:42 PM,
Selena Dreamy said…
Knowing that the suggestions I offer are bound to create outrage, I feel that silence is better than submission!
At December 06, 2007 2:33 PM,
Susan B. said…
I agree with Marilynne, but the Nobel givers tend to like a bigger oeuvre.
Also agree about the award now relating more to politics than literary merit. Harold Pinter? C'mon!
At December 08, 2007 9:08 PM,
Elberry said…
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...'
Kudos to them for admitting Eliot & Camus but the omission of Wallace St is staggering. No earthly crown will do.
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