Ideal and idealistic

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Pynchon will never get it. Apart from the literary merit, nobody will receive the Nobel Prize who tells us about scatological sex, I´m sure of that...


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Datum: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 17:56:13 +0300
Von: "Ya Sam" <takoitov at hotmail.com>
An: pynchon-l at waste.org
Betreff: Ideal and idealistic

> 
> The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded annually to an author from any 
> country who has, in the words of Alfred Nobel, produced "the most 
> outstanding work of an idealistic tendency". The "work" in this case 
> generally refers to an author's work as a whole, not to any individual
> work, 
> though individual works are sometimes cited in the awards. The Swedish 
> Academy decides who, if anyone, will receive the prize in any given year
> and 
> announces the name of the chosen laureate in early October.
> 
> The original citation of this Nobel Prize has led to much controversy. In 
> the original Swedish, the word idealisk can be translated as either 
> "idealistic" or "ideal". In earlier years the Nobel Committee stuck
> closely 
> to the intent of the will, and left out certain world-renowned writers
> such 
> as Leo Tolstoy and Henrik Ibsen for the Prize, probably because their
> works 
> were not "idealistic" enough. In later years the wording is interpreted
> much 
> more liberally, and the Prize is awarded, as is often argued that it
> should 
> be, for lasting literary merit. The choice of the Academy can still
> generate 
> controversy in their selection of lesser known writers, such as Dario Fo
> in 
> 1997.
> 
> /...../
> 
> 
> Eligible writers
> The following writers have yet to win the Nobel Prize in literature. Since
> this list could, in principle, be limitless, and since it is impossible to
> determine whose work is more deserving of recognition, two simple rules
> have 
> been used in assembling this list: First, only those writers are included 
> who have achieved significant literary (as opposed to popular) recognition
> in their own country or language are eligible. And two, only writers whose
> achievement has been undisputed for at least twenty years are included. To
> determine this second rule, the year of publication of the defining work
> is 
> listed. In cases where a writer's reputation accreted over time, the year 
> and work listed are those by which time it was generally agreed that the 
> writer was established and/or important.
> 
> Miguel Delibes - La sombra del ciprés es alargada (1947)
> Nicanor Parra — Poemas y Antipoemas (1954)
> Mario Vargas Llosa — Conversación en la Catedral (1969)
> Phillip Roth — Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
> Joyce Carol Oates — them (1970)
> John Updike — Rabbit Redux (1971)
> Thomas Pynchon — Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
> E. L. Doctorow — Ragtime (1975)
> Umberto Eco — The Name of the Rose (1980)
> Norman Mailer — The Executioner's Song (1980)
> Salman Rushdie — Midnight's Children (1981)
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature
> 
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