Nobel speculation

[Heikki R]

Yes, Shepard really seems to go for TRP. Not without (self)irony: "The
ultimate effect of a Cărtărescu victory would be a massive, collective
orgasm whose sensation would be limited to men who, in the past 10 years,
asked their local tattoo artist to cover their Pynchon muted horns with an
image of Krasznahorkai’s Baron Wenckheim. It goes without saying that this
would also be the first non-self-inflicted orgasm any of those men had had
during that period."

As it happens, I've promised to review Krasznahorkai’s "The Melancholy of
Resistance" for a Finnish cultural magazine. The book has just come out in
Finnish. Haven't gotten my hands on a copy yet. So far, I've only read
"Satantango" which I loved. Lessee what happens when I delve into "Baron
Wenckheim's Homecoming"...

On a more serious note. Pynchon's descent in Nobel speculations seems to
largely coincide with the 2015 election of Sara Danius as the Secretary of
the Swedish Academy. I met the late Danius (d. 2019) at an ACLA conference
in Puerto Vallarta in 1997. (I was already acquainted with her then hubby
Stefan.) She was a champion of modernists like Proust, Joyce, and Woolf,
and didn't seem to think much of Pynchon.


Heikki

On Tue, Oct 4, 2022 at 4:44 PM Allen Ruch <quail at shipwrecklibrary.com>
wrote:

> https://newrepublic.com/article/167921/will-win-2022-nobel-prize-literature
> ?
>
> Alex Shephard has always liked Pynchon; who is mentioned with the
> appropriate(?) sense of humor.
>
> Personally, I think it should be given to Pynchon, DeLillo, and Coover as
> a collective trio! They can decide just who to send to Stockholm in their
> place.
>
> —Q
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