Pulitzer--Apr 16

[Dave Monroe]

Pulitzers, who knows?  Will admit, am not much a
reader of "contemporary" lit'rachure, at least of
contemporary fiction (do try to keep up on much else).
 But, having in recent years managed to call both
Kenzaburo Oe and Gunter Grass, at least, and at least
knowing that the Nobel 2000 was due for a Chinese
Laureate (though I called Bei Dao myself, got an
autographed book and everything, just in case), I'm
going to go out on a limb and say that the Committee
will go out on a limb for the Centennial and give it
to one Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr.  Seriously.  Not
just saying that.  I mean, really, Sully Prudhomme
(Laureate #1)?  No Joyce, or Proust, or ... well,
there's some catching up to do, is all.  Who would
make a bigger, more meteoric splash?  It's the
twenty-first century, the third millenium, the Age of
Whatever, well ... well, you DIDN'T hear it here
first, no doubt, but ... but who's he gonna send this
time?  Really, just to see what he'd do, I'd give it
to him ...


--- KXX4493553 at aol.com wrote:
> In einer eMail vom 05.04.01 20:50:05 (MEZ) -
> Mitteleurop. Sommerzeit schreibt 
> richardromeo at hotmail.com:
> 
> > nobel prize
> V. S. Naipaul? Often mentioned as a candidate.
> 
> Kurt-Werner Pörtner
>  


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