Fw: Fwd: On Why Pynchon Will Never Win the Nobel

[rich]

I don't think Doris Lessing showed up either. Curious what u think of
Jelinek's German translation of GR. I believe she said Pynchon deserved the
prize more than she did or at least deserved it outright

rich

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de
> wrote:

> **
>
> Y
>
> b) It's true that the Nobel Committee was pissed about Sartre's "I'd better
> prefer not to" back then.
> However, to say that "one thing the Swedish Academy wants is a winner who
> will come to Oslo" is
> putting far too much emphasis on it. Since you mention Elfriede Jelinek:
> She, who rarely leaves
> the house, did not come to Oslo! Her speech was read out. And the Swedish
> Academy knew about
> this when they gave her the Prize. So I guess Mrs. Jackson could read out
> Pynchon's speech.
>
>
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