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Originally Posted by issybird
There's an interesting Op-Ed piece In today's NY Times about Dylan's lack of response. Overall I find it persuasive, even if there's a tinge of sour grapes in regard to the Academy's response to American lit as a whole. |
Yep! I saw that linked from elsewhere.
Dylan gonna Dylan!
"....There is a good deal of poetic justice in this turn of events. For almost a quarter of a century, ever since Toni Morrison won the Nobel in 1993, the Nobel committee acted as if American literature did not exist — and now an American is acting as if the Nobel committee doesn’t exist. Giving the award to Mr. Dylan was an insult to all the great American novelists and poets who are frequently proposed as candidates for the prize. The all-but-explicit message was that American literature, as traditionally defined, was simply not good enough. This is an absurd notion, but one that the Swedes have embraced: In 2008, the Academy’s permanent secretary, Horace Engdahl, declared that American writers “don’t really participate in the big dialogue of literature” and are limited by that “ignorance.”...."