Can we find idealism in Pynchon's oevre?

[Ya Sam]

But Magnus Eriksson, literary critic for Svenska Dagbladet, strongly 
disagrees: "The academy is totally apolitical. Their decisions are 
well-founded and they consider literary merit only. If politics influenced 
them, V.S. Naipul would never have won." He explains some of the 
non-laureates: "Joseph Conrad was never Nobelized because the academy was 
scrupulously following the instructions in Nobel’s will, that the 
recipient’s work should have an idealistic direction.” Conrad, like Thomas 
Hardy, was too dark, too pessimistic.

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