castrated P

paolo beneforti pbeneforti at inwind.it
Tue Aug 29 01:09:47 CDT 2006


do you really think that such a distinction has any influence on Nobel?

terrance fitzgerald ha scritto:
>  GR was a roaring success in the 70s and even in the 80s. People
>  talked about P getting a nobel prize. In the 70s and 80s the nobel
>  for literature was given to males. Only males. And some manly men
>  too. Roth and Pynchon missed the high water mark for Hemingway-like
>  male writers.  In the 90s, a record 4 females were awarded the nobel
>  in literature. So what? Well, P is essentially a man's author and his
>  modern view of females is deeply embedded in his fiction. It looks
>  like he's lost his balls. Roth Marquez, Grass, by contrast, are still
>  writing like men with super balls, P has been castrated.
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