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The Nobel claim about American authors doesn't make much sense.

First, the prize has been awarded to writers who do exactly what the Nobel
claim argues should disqualify an author. Of the winners since Toni
Morrison, none of them American, not a few
have written almost entirely about a small postage stamp world.

Second, if the claim is simply about the Americans, then how did Morrison
get the prize?

Third, the fact that the Americans don't translate enough should not
disqualify its authors.

Forth, that America is an insular empire that doesn't participate in
European intellectual discourse should not disqualify its authors.

Fifth, the publishing industry in America isn't on the list of potential
winners. To punish the writers for the industry's limitations is very
unfair.

Sixth, though the Americans have an inflated sense of their place in the
world generally, they are essentially anti-intellectual Yahoos who could
care less who wins a literature prize in Norway, or Sweden, or wherever.



 BTW, Morrison is the student of Faulkner, not Pynchon. Though Morrison and
Pynchon ar ethe subject of an excellent study.

http://clogic.eserver.org/2002/schwartz.html

https://www.dukeupress.edu/negative-liberties/?viewby=title


On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 5:26 PM, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mark, I don't see the connection there. Faulkner and Pynchon are just so
> different in that way. Take Tore's argument about Pynchon's global trilogy
> -- Yoknapatawpha County is really the antithesis of that, no?
>
>
> On Jan 23, 2016, at 02:51, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Speculative connection of the morning:
>
> Do you think that when Pynchon read Faulkner
> say he worked his postage stamp bit of reality,
> that (part of) the seed for that Crying metaphor
> started germinating? HIS postage stamp was
> the unfolding of a more spacious America, ambitiously ALL of it
> since mail was national......?
>
> (That quiet, publicly humble, very private guy HAD HUGE AMBITION and
> I don't mean Crying here at all..."a short story marketed as a novel"
> written
> cause he needed the dough....BUT THE OTHERS! )
>
> William Faulkner / Paris Review / Interview / postage stamp of ...
> <http://www.quotenik.com/william-faulkner-paris-review-interview-postage-stamp-of-native-soil/>
> www.quotenik.com/william-*faulkner*-paris-review-interview-*postage*-*sta*
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>
> "I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth
> writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it."
>
>
>
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> 1/23/16, 3:55 AM
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