Question Re: Nobel Laureate 2000 ...

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Has anyone read anything by Xingjian? Or even heard of
him before the prize? I think I might of heard about
The Other Shore, but I could tell you anything about
it.

--- Thomas Lundvall <thomas_lundvall at hotmail.com>
wrote:
> 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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