Is The Great Gatsby the Great American Novel?

[Mark Kohut]

By writing Finnegans Wake? joke.


From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Sunday, May 5, 2013 5:28 AM
Subject: Re: Is The Great Gatsby the Great American Novel?




I can' recall if Ellmann addresses the Nobel, but his is an excellent biography of Jimmy. Espmark, Feldman, don't give definitive answers to the Nobel selections. 
On Sunday, May 5, 2013, Rev'd Seventy-Six wrote:

"Joyce never got a Nobel and there's some politics involved."
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>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?
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>How did Joyce foul his chances?  I don't know this story.
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