Nobel Laureate 2000 ...

[Thomas Lundvall]

Well, here in Stockholm I'm pretty sure no-one except the members of 
"Svenska Akademien" know who Xingjian is. I work part time at a library when 
I'm not studying and we had ONE novel by him, and I don't think that anybody 
there has read it (I certainly haven't). This is why Pynchon will never get 
the Nobel Prize - too many people have read his books :-) Ok, this is not 
the case here where only GR is available in swedish, but he is famous. 
Besides, if rumours and claims about how other Nobel Laureates' abilities to 
write decline after they get the Nobel Prize are true (Hemingway among 
others comes to mind) I'm perfectly happy if Pynchon never gets it. I'll 
keep enjoying his novels and eagerly await the next one, even if I have to 
wait another ten years. In the meantime I'll try to persuade my friends to 
pick up a 700-page book in English and start reading.

Thomas




>From: Dave Monroe <monroe at mpm.edu>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Nobel Laureate 2000 ...
>Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 10:30:27 -0500
>
>... well, no doubt by now you all know this year's Nobel Laureate in
>Lit'rachure in one Gao Xingjian.  Obligatory hyperlink:
>
>http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/10/12/nobel.literature/index.html
>
>Who I know nothing about.  But was happy enough to have at least somehow
>channeled that Chinese factor from the ether, so ... but 2001, for
>meritorious service, Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr., no doubt you DIDN'T
>hear it from me first, but my question is, given a Nobel Prize, would
>Pynchon finally show up an accept?  Think Professor Irwin Corey is still
>available ...
>

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