pinter's poetry

rich richard.romeo at gmail.com
Tue Oct 18 13:32:07 CDT 2005


i am partial to fiction than drama I admit so I do see your point(s)
 rich

 On 10/13/05, malignd at aol.com <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
>
> <<have to say his nobel award sounds to me like the one given to
> gunther grass--the man who's better days appear to be behind him>>
>
> I'm not sure I agree, but, if true, it certainly wouldn't be the first
> time the award was given for past efforts; isn't the Nobel, as often as
> not, a crowning of a career? Faulkner? Hemingway? They were
> certainly past their primes when they received the Nobel. Hemingway,
> if I remember, had just written Old Man and the Sea, which is an awful
> book.
>
>
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