Philip Roth Didn't Deserve the Booker International Prize

[Dave Monroe]

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 1:37 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anis-shivani/philip-roth-booker-prize_b_864536.html

"Pynchon ... [an] American writers first, not in the sense that
Fitzgerald or Hemingway were (questioning their Americanness), but
American in a curiously isolationist way, preoccupied exclusively with
the predicaments of our nation, and no other in the world."??(!!)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anis-shivani/philip-roth-booker-prize_b_864536.html

Menawhile, anyone want to coomment on, say, teh
cosmopolitanism/internationalism/whatever of, say, Herta Muller, or,
iuh, pretty much any other Nobel laureate?  Maybe Tolstoy simply too
Russian, Proust was simply too French, Joyce too Irish, and so on and
so forth.  Uh, yeah, that's it ...

"Aha! I see it. This writer gets my metaphysical loneliness, he sees
why I feel lost and confounded in the modern world, why I can find no
way around tradition or rebellion to soothe my restless spirit."

Uh ...