Nobel prize not a surprise

[enot06]

Lessing Not Impressed by Nobel Prize

I haven't read "The Golden Notebook" or anything else by this year prize winner. Should I?
I read Elfriede Jelinek though and I can't see how she became the chosen one.

Astrid Lindgren
Tove Jansson
J.P. Tolkien
George Orwell
...
too many were left out and no way this can be repaired now

What is the true meaning of this prize, I wonder.
Is it all about politics as if Nobel Peace Prize is not enough?

Comments

[kot-begemot.livejournal.com]

Политика чистая. Литература там не ночевала.

[scolar.livejournal.com]

Всё же, из получивших в последние годы, по крайней мере, Кутзее и Памук были не самым постыдным выбором с литературной точки зрения.

[kot-begemot.livejournal.com]

Так и Бродский не был постыдным выбором. Но хрен бы он что получил, не будь там кроме этого политики накручено.
И чем дальше, тем больше в нобелевских премиях политики - даже в научных. В частности, премия этого года по медицине - совершенно очевидным образом подчёркивает использование эмбриональных стволовых клеток. Что отнюдь не умаляет достижений, но говорит лишь о том, что критерием выбора был вовсе не научный вклад нобилянтов, а "горячая" тематика. Ещё удивительно, что по физике нобеля дали без очевидной политической подоплёки - видно, очередного Алфёрова не нашли.

[gingema]

The very first Nobel Prize in Literature winner was a French poet Sully Prudhomme. Nobody knows him today. I recently asked a highly educated and well-read French guy - never even heard the name.

[brevi.livejournal.com]

Notice how many of the laureats are, or have been, card-carrying members of various hard-core communist parties (shooting from the hip: Andric, Sholokhov, Neruda, Seifert, Gordimer, Fo, Saramago, Gao Xingjian, Jelinek, Pinter, Lessing). Are there any other writers?

[bulkin.livejournal.com]

you should absolutely read it
it's not great LITERATURE
but its totally worth the time

[anna-i.livejournal.com]

I read it many years ago ("The Golden Notebook") and liked it a lot.

off:

[anna-i.livejournal.com]

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