Posted on 09/30/2008 12:59:07 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - The man who announces the Nobel Prize in literature says the United States is too "insular" and ignorant to compete with Europe when it comes to great writing.
In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Horace Engdahl said Tuesday that "Europe still is the center of the literary world."
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I can live with it.
How long before these Euro weenies are writing only praises to Allah and Mo in Arabic?
Hot damn!
Thank you to the Mod that unlocked this..
I have a feeeling there will be many more
and already are.. lol
I did Search too, honest! :-]
Sounds like someone is being intolerant of Third World cultures. Muslims all over the world should protest.
Submit yur latest works here for revu
http://www.swedishacademy.org/web/en.aspx
the members
http://www.swedishacademy.org/web/Members.aspx
With their long record of wars on their continent, abusing their continent in other ways etc. we can say that Europe ceased to exist long ago.
Soon they won’t be writing anything, or reading anything but the koran. Think I’d rather be insular.
If I was ever nominated (not even a chance!) I’d turn the “honor” down. Who’d want to be ranked with Jimmah Carter, Yasser Arafat, Al Gore and...Toni Morrison? Nobel Prizes are now handed out as pats on the head for Marxist political activism.
I hear ya.. most of the members of the sewdish academy are european, btw.
While a big chunk of man’s great creations have arisen in Europe over the years, to claim this high ground looks like they are a bunch of doddering effete elites... but consider who they have rewarded of late.
They’re cocktail and dinner partied out perhaps.. elitism does that to folk.
Too bad, I wouldn’t mind the bling that goes with a
Nobel myself... but we’re just a bunch of hayseeds, yaknow.
What do he meen? He shure uses them big fancie werds. I is just a Amurican from a small burg. Guess I go and hug my gun n my ‘ligion.
How many people actually read Nobel prize “literature” anyway?
Leapin’Lizards. Every day the greatest work of fiction is created right here in the Good Ole USA. They call it the Grey Lady, or the New York Times, or that fu###in’ rag. These yourpeons are so self-centered.
As Raymond Chandler once wrote: “Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.”
Apparently, after evaluating all of American literature, our output is defacto classified as “insular” - as we are American, hence divided from the great world “out there”. Tidy, isn’t he? Can anybody name one Irish or French literary masterpiece produced in the last two years?
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