Carter and Arafat on their honeymoon
Posted on 10/11/2005 8:13:34 PM PDT by blam
Commie propagandist Dario Fo (forget what year) was said to be even worser!
---In its 2004 citation the academy announced that it was giving her the prize "for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power".---
Ugh. lefty-intellectual speak.
1997, dumbie!
Sounds like Yoko Ono had a part in this somehow.
Knut Ahnlund has just brilliantly described every over-hyped leftist writer in history. Well done.
It ain't gonna be one of the FReeper favritz:
Not JK Rowland (7 cliches per page average - I counted m'self),
Not Tom Clancy ("The most successful American bad writer since James Fenimore Cooper" - Christopher Buckley,
Not Stephen King (writes "what used to be called penny dreadfuls" - Harold Bloom).
The Nobel in literature should be shelved, and the Nobel Peace prize is a joke. But I like it when the recipients fight each other.
I'd like to see her go on the board of the UN so they can all fall apart and break up as well.
Carter and Arafat on their honeymoon
Here's a review of "Lust," by last year's winner:
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
yet more proof - nobel prize in literature means nothing , October 1, 2005
Reviewer: pretygrrl (BROOKLYN, NY United States) - See all my reviews
Reflect on the sheer volume of books published every year around the world. Reflect further on the number of languages in which these books are written. These numbers alone will warn against expectations of a meaningful system of awards, recognition, etc. when it comes to the Nobel prize in literature.
Remember also that Mark Twain, Chekhov, Oscar Wild, Leo Tolstoy were all superseded by utterly forgotten *others* by the fickle Nobel.
It should then come as no surprise that Lust is trash. Garbage. It's terribly written. Admittedly, I dont speak German, so am unable to definitely judge who is at fault here - the author or the translator. I suspect it's largely the author. Example: "edifying edifices" is a sentence in Lust. That's it. That's the sentence. It's like some sophomoric butchery. Reminds me of the papers I wrote when asked to imitate Joyce's "stream of consciences", in 12th grade......
The emperor most definitely has no clothes here. It's painful to read due both to the writing itself and the half-formulated ideas expressed therein. When you tell me about a book by a post-WWII German, i think Boll, Grass. This latest name, Jelinek, does not belong. I just hope she will vanish in the not-too distant future, by way of the authors who received this prize instead of Tolstoy, Twain and Chekhov. Who were they, again?
And science and peace and........
I nominate Buckhead.
There was actually one sane member of the Nobel comitte that awarded Arafat the prize. Off course he walked out in protest, when he realised what the other members were about to do.
Stephen King is/was actually a fairly accomplished storyteller, though still "down market."
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