Nobel, Snowden, Pynchon

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

The issue is also of domestic urgency in Sweden, as FRA, the Swedish
equivalent to NSA and GCHQ, has apparently been the third big player in
surveillance operations:
http://rt.com/news/sweden-cooperation-nsa-gchq-536/

(The news has sparked off speculations that this is one of the reasons
why Obama chose to visit Sweden before the G20 meeting in St Petersburg.)


Which means that you are one step closer to win those 200K Euros, Kai.


On Sat, 21 Sep 2013, Kai Frederik Lorentzen wrote:

>
> Could imagine that the political context into which 'Bleeding Edge' is
> published now (and which also gets debated in some of the reviews) will
> raise the probability that Pynchon gets the Nobel Prize this year. They
> always - for better and for worse - consider the political impact of
> their decision. Politically the USA have come, or so it looks to many
> Europeans, to stand for Guantanamo, Abu Ghuraib, killer drones and
> global surveillance (in general: for the disrespecting of international
> law and human rights). But sooner or later the Nobel committee has to
> give its prize to an US-American author again. While Cormac McCarthy and
> Philip Roth, who both would deserve it in terms of sheer aesthetics too,
> are in Europe not observed as representatives of an alternative and
> better America, this is different with Pynchon who earned that dissident
> reputation already during the first phase of his career, especially with
> 'Gravity's Rainbow'. And that's of course the book they will give it to
> him for. But 'Bleeding Edge', among all its other benefits, is taking
> the issue of technology & control to the 21st century.
>
> I just called my London bookie and put 10 000 Euros on Tom.
>