Nobel favourite

[John Doe]

Excellent capsule analysis of the situation, Sam!
Yes...that about sums it up.


--- Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I don't think the Nobel commitee is interested in
> the literary values 
> represented by this or that writer' work. I've never
> been present during 
> their discussions, but I'm afraid it's something
> like this: 1. too few 
> female writers have received the prize; 2. we
> haven't given the prize to a 
> poet for a long time; 3. we've been awarding too
> many European authors, 
> ergo: let's give the prize to this nice Vietnamese
> female poet nobody knows 
> about. (NB: Have nothing against Vietnamese female
> poets, it's just an 
> example)
> 
> The literature awards contradict the very logic of
> the Nobel Prize. If in 
> case of physics or chemistry they award breakthrough
> discoveries, they are 
> not guided by the same criteria when selecting
> writers. In terms of 
> literature, IMHO, Pynchon's prose is tantamount to
> the discovery of DNA 
> structure, just like Joyce's writing was. With all
> respect to Coetzee or 
> Jelinek, what they write is not the turning point in
> the development of 
> world literature, but Pynchon's work is a landmark
> that will remain in 
> history after most of the laureates will be long
> forgotten. Joyce never got 
> the prize and Pynchon's chances appear to be quite
> slim. Maybe this is the 
> way it should be.
> 
> Y.
> 
> 
> >From: Cyrus <ioannissevastianos at yahoo.gr>
> >To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> >Subject: Re: Nobel favourite
> >Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 14:27:20 +0300
> >
> >I guess when they say "mainstream" they really mean
> "anglo-saxon". And 
> >"experimental" must mean "with a non-anglo-saxon
> point of view". Sometimes 
> >I get the feeling it's all politics.
> >
> >And Pynchon hasn't produced anything recently.
> Isn't that a criterion?
> >
> >Cyrus
> >
> >John Carvill wrote:
> >
> >>Yeah, like JM Coetzee is really experimental.
> >>
> >>Pynchon mainstream? Jeez Louise!
> >>
> >>My money's on either Roth or (they keep sayin')
> Bob Dylan.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org
> [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
> >>Behalf Of Paul Taylor
> >>Sent: 07 October 2005 09:52
> >>To: jbor at bigpond.com
> >>Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> >>Subject: Re: Nobel favourite
> >>
> >>from
> http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=29389:
> >>
> >><<Thente [Swedish lit. crit.] said he would like
> to see "the great
> >>American postmodernist authors Don DeLillo or
> Thomas Pynchon" take
> >>home the prestigious award, but Weyler [Swed.
> chief. ed.] said he
> >>didn't think they had a chance.
> >>"They are great epic writers, but they are
> considered very mainstream.
> >>They're not very experimental, pushing the
> boundaries of literature,"
> >>he said. >>
> >>
> >>Pynchon in the 'mainstream'.  Ouch.
> >>
> >>--PT
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> 
>
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