American Nobel?

[Thomas Eckhardt]

> Well, Pynchon's German translator received the prize  "for her musical flow
> of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary
> linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their
> subjugating power."
> Now what's the difference? (Except for the gender and, if you forgive me,
> the quality?)
>   
There are many differences between Jelinek's writing and Pynchon's; 
there are also some similarities. After she had been rewarded the Nobel 
Prize, Jelinek called it a joke that she had received the Prize and 
Pynchon had not.

Thomas