Is The Great Gatsby the Great American Novel?

[Rev'd Seventy-Six]

"Joyce never got a Nobel and there's some politics involved."

There always are with these things.  Borges being a perfect example:  the
committee would take vocal supporters of Stalin, but not an established,
well-regarded author who vouched for a pseudo-populist despot?

How did Joyce foul his chances?  I don't know this story.
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