Gerald Howard on Delillo's Nobel

[Mark Kohut]

I agree with that contrast between the unworthy galling winner and that
Wolfe of her time and for all time..
when I recently plunged into rereading and reading what I had not and did
some research........

I learned this: She was hardly ever even considered near to be being
worthy.....despite praise and I think the success
of *Mrs. Dalloway* and praise by the best for *To The Lighthouse, *which I
don't think was much of a sales success, her
reputation grew as slowly as Marvell's vegetable love.....hitting escape
velocity in the sixties.......


On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 12:05 PM Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:

> I should have said white western MALE authors
>
> And with good reason - we can all compile our own list of great writers who
> didn’t receive the Nobel, and women are particularly underrepresented. John
> Galsworthy but not Virginia Woolf?
>
> On Wednesday, April 1, 2020, Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I think De Lillo deserves it but I also think the Nobel committee are
> > likely conscious of over representing white Western authors, so I doubt
> he
> > will win it this year, especially as Handke was awarded it in 2019.
> >
> > Same reason McCarthy, Kundera, Stoppard and indeed TRP are unlikely to
> win
> > it this year.
> >
> > On Wednesday, April 1, 2020, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> »richly«, yes?
> >>
> >> Am Mi., 1. Apr. 2020 um 16:53 Uhr schrieb rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com
> >:
> >>
> >> >
> >> > https://www.bookforum.com/print/2701/why-don-delillo-deserve
> >> s-the-nobel-23926
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Why Don DeLillo deserves the Nobel
> >> > GERALD HOWARD <https://www.bookforum.com/contributor/gerald-howard>
> >> >
> >> > Do you find it as obvious as I do that Don DeLillo richly deserves to
> >> > receive the Nobel Prize in Literature? And right away, as in this
> year?
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