And the Nobel Prize in Literature goes to

[Dave Monroe]

> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Heikki Raudaskoski
>> <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi> wrote:
>>>
>>> Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio,
>>>
>>> "author of new departures, poetic adventure
>>> and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity
>>> beyond and below the reigning civilization".
>>
>> http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2008/index.html
>>
>> http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2008/press.html
>>
>> http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2008/bio-bibl.html
>>
>> http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2008/announcement.html

Neue Zürcher Zeitung 10.10.2008

Peter Urban-Halle has no real quibbles about Jean-Marie Gustave Le
Clezio winning the Nobel Prize for literature. He appreciates the
novelist's "elegantly sophisticated style", "his colourful
description, his musical undertones." But he has a few reservations:
"In his early novels there is an overwhelming sense of misanthropic
reality and disgust at life. His second book "The Flood" encapsulated
the experience of catastrophe. With "Shark" in 1971 he changed tack
and headed for non-European cultures and their holistic view of the
world and things in general. In his seemingly simplistic, discreet
way, Le Clezio is attacking the divide between man and matter. You
could almost describe the result as reactionary, a refusal of
intelligence and sophistication."

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