Philip Roth Didn't Deserve the Booker International Prize

[Dave Monroe]

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Dave Monroe
<against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

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

"We opened up in the 1920s and 1930s, for a brief moment of true
engagement with the world's other literary traditions. Here Pound, the
most influential cultural translator and communicator of his time, is
the exemplar. His hand seems to have been behind just about everything
good that happened to American literature in that period of
renaissance. Engaged not only with the traditions of American and
world literature but cosmopolite of the highest order, he didn't just
steal from other traditions--as is convenient under present publishing
industry standards--but was in dialogue with them, as Engdahl would
surely appreciate. Pound translating Sextus Propertius or Confucius
somehow Americanizes without debasing. We locked up Pound in a mental
asylum, of course, for refusing to go to war...."

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

Uh ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound#Turn_to_fascism.2C_Second_World_War