Jennifer Egan on TRP and the Nobel Prize

[Erik T. Burns]

> Must their last gasp
> coincide with the final word of the opus maestro?

In Gaddis' case this almost literally true, with _Agapé Agape_.

I can't remember when I stopped caring (much) about the Nobel Prize
winner; there was a time I would run out and at least try to read a
book or two of each year's winner. Haven't done that for a very long
time (aside from Saramago, for personal reasons, and definitel Garcia
Marquez; I don't think I could name five of the past 20 years without
the brain prosthetic aid of Wikipedia).



On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 11:19 AM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm so glad they didn't give it to Dylan. I love Dylan, but he aint no
> poet; he's a song writer and he's got lots of awards for writing
> songs.
> I can't think of an author that got the nobel for literature but
> shouldn't have. Sure, they missed some. Even Babe Ruth missed some.
>
>> Erik says:
>>
>>>> They didn't give a Nobel to Gaddis. That shows you
>>>> what the prize is worth.
>>
>> But they did give it to Beckett, Faulkner and Thomas Mann.
>