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September 30, 2008
Eurosnob: America Is Too Provincial for Nobel Lit Prize
American moonbattery is sufficiently fulsome to produce Nobel Peace Prize winners like Jimmy Carter and Al Gore, but when it comes to Literature, our prize-winning days appear to be behind us for now. Sniffs Horace Engdahl of the Swedish Academy:
The U.S. is too isolated, too insular. They don't translate enough and don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature. That ignorance is restraining.
Obscenity-laced doggerel comparing the USA to Nazi Germany might win you a Nobel Prize if you're Harold Pinter, but not if you're a measly American.
On the bright side, if Barack Obama is elected, Europeans will like us more. Unfortunately, we'll like ourselves a lot less.
On a tip from Adrian.
Posted by Van Helsing at September 30, 2008 8:08 PM
Comments
He doesn't look like the type of "guy" I'd want on my side in an honest bar fight.
American literature seems to be driven too much by capitalism (best sellers) for him?
I doubt I'd recommend his "most recommended" to anyone outside of unthinking homosexual insomniacs who watch Oprah and live with 'mother'.
Posted by: Jimbo at September 30, 2008 10:32 PM
The Nobel literature "prize" is a joke, as is the "peace" prize. Both were established after Nobel's original bequest. How one compares the literature of different languages and cultures is anyone's guess.
As for this guy, back in Viking times, would he have sailed with the men or been left behind with the women? It's a rhetorical question, obviously.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 30, 2008 11:04 PM
European Elitism is nothing new, however it never ceases to make me laugh...what do they have to be Elite about, socialism?
Posted by: Ludwig Van Beethoven at October 1, 2008 1:44 AM
The homo can be emailed at:
horace.engdahl@swedishacademy.org
Posted by: Conan at October 1, 2008 4:06 AM
Just wouldnt you like to see that jerk get his teeth knocked down his throat?
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at October 1, 2008 7:21 AM
Europe and most of the free world has outsourced their security to the US. Make them pay their share.
Posted by: JamesJ at October 1, 2008 7:48 AM
A legend in his own mind. He is the iconic self important "intellectual" expressing his superiority to the Sammy Six-packs in that regretfully gauche place called America. Apparently great literature is determined by how few copies you sell. William Faulkner, James Thurber, Thornton Wilder, Ernest Hemmingway, John Steinbeck, et al are laughing their etherial butts off at this butt biscuit.
Posted by: chuck in st paul at October 1, 2008 8:55 AM
Hey, c'mon people, thats what passes for a two-fisted he-man in Sweden.
Posted by: Rick A at October 1, 2008 12:02 PM
