Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the 2021 Nobel prize in literature

[Anonymous No.19185294]

>The Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, for his "Uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents".

[Anonymous No.19185298]

>>19185294
Thanks for telling me. Ordered Paradise.

[Anonymous No.19185330]

>>19185294
kek of course its about colonialism the only thing brown people can write about is muh racism just like how women can only write about muh vagina

[Anonymous No.19185347]

>>19185330
rekt, they exist in a state of pure ressentiment

[Anonymous No.19185355]

Muhhhhhhhh BWC
Eternally broken. Has anyone read this guy?

[Anonymous No.19185399]

Do brown people think of anything except for themselves and boring social problems?

[Anonymous No.19185458]

>compassionate penetration

[Anonymous No.19185460]

>>19185399
He writes about refugees not as poor nothings Europe has to take in, but as energetic people who have something to offer.

[Anonymous No.19185468]

>>19185330
One of the major Swedish newspapers wrote this about him:
>His descriptions and critiques of ethnocentrism and colonialism are not - like many of his African-born colleagues - confrontational. It can be said that he challenges the traditional postcolonial novel by, for example, toning down the role of Europe.

[Anonymous No.19185470]

Big Black Brain

[Anonymous No.19185493]

>>19185470
Necrosis is no laughing matter, anon.

[Anonymous No.19185496]

>>19185399
“Oppression” breeds narcissism. The common theme throughout these works is that suffering makes you the center of the world.

[Anonymous No.19185498]

>>19185460
They should offer something to their homelands

[Anonymous No.19185507]

>>19185496
Hmm that's very often the case. Clever guy.

[Anonymous No.19185511]

Will a prize ever go to someone for the beauty and merit of the text alone, not for the social importance of the subject matter? Sigh.

[Anonymous No.19185521]

>>19185298
I got his first one. I hope it's good!

[Anonymous No.19185580]

>>19185521
Here’s an excerpt from Desertion. Let me know your thoughts.

[Anonymous No.19185627]

>>19185511
never again

[Anonymous No.19185637]

>>19185511
Well no matter what happens, at least you can take comfort in the fact that there’s no one in the world less deserving of the award than Bob Dylan.

[Anonymous No.19185646]

>>19185637
You can't appreciate music?
Imagine being filtered by music.

[Anonymous No.19185691]

>>19185637
Are you serious?
Bob Dylan has crafted narratives, images, metaphors and even characters which poets like Louise Gluck only dream of.
His lyrics, taken as wholes, are SHIT, but they have moments of genius which make up for it. Meanwhile, many of the laureates write nothing but the 192922th iteration of magic realism or the 194824th iteration of 19th century style realism with a Zolaesque social focus. What's the point? It's completely banal.
At least Dylan is something rather interesting and new, a thing of his own, though of course heavily influenced by the Beats.
Visions of Johannah is better than the vast majority, if not all Louise Gluck poems, and I actually like Louise Gluck.
It's also better than this >>19185580, and I do recognize that this is a decent page. Again, taken as a whole, that Dylan lyric might very well have more faults, but it has lines which are better than *any* line in that page.

Christopher Ricks is perhaps the greatest living literary critic in America, a very serious specialist on Milton, Keats, Pound, and Eliot, and he has written a 600 page book on Dylan, and the book focuses only on Dylan's conception of sin.
You just don't know what you're talking about.

[Anonymous No.19185711]

>>19185637
>>19185691
Like seriously, c'mon, this is good.
https://genius.com/Bob-dylan-the-ballad-of-frankie-lee-and-judas-priest-lyrics

[Anonymous No.19185789]

>>19185460
So it’s capitalist propaganda from a brown man. Got it

[Anonymous No.19185796]

>>19185580
This is splendid. Actually shocked the Nobel picked a good one

[Anonymous No.19185802]

>>19185460
They should help their homeland

[Anonymous No.19185811]

>>19185580
Which translation is this, friendo?

[Anonymous No.19185812]

>>19185646
Bob Dylan’s work represents the ultimate triumph of industrialized popular culture over folk cultures. It’s uniquely vile.

[Anonymous No.19185813]

>>19185460
Holy shit, how brave

[Anonymous No.19185815]

>>19185330
black people*

[Anonymous No.19185835]

>>19185580
>out of print

shiiiit wtf it only dropped in 2005

[Anonymous No.19185841]

>>19185811
the dude is a brit he lives in england and writes in english, try to at least skim the wikipedia, thanks

[Anonymous No.19185857]

>>19185580
>just started reading the master and margarita
>see this opening paragraph
waow

[Anonymous No.19186038]

>>19185835
I just snatched up a second-hand hardback by pantheon for 35 USD.

[Anonymous No.19186105]

>>19185812
So you hate him because he was popular. Got it.

[Anonymous No.19186121]

>>19186038
cringe

[Anonymous No.19186131]

>>19185812
Judge the work itself, not what it represents. Fucking imbecile.

[Anonymous No.19186146]

This is better than most of Gluck's poetry and than any of Gurnah's pages posted here so far:

"Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it
And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
In this room the heat pipes just cough
The country music station plays soft
But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind

In the empty lot where the ladies play blindman's bluff with the key chain
And the all-night girls they whisper of escapades out on the "D" train
We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight
Ask himself if it's him or them that's insane
Louise, she's all right, she's just near
She's delicate and seems like the mirror
But she just makes it all too concise and too clear
That Johanna's not here
The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face
Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place"

[Anonymous No.19186152]

>>19186146
based Dylan poster

[Anonymous No.19186164]

>>19186131
In this case, as is the case for all popular music, it is what it represents. It’s phony folk music produced to achieve popular appeal and hacky lyrics just complex enough to receive praise from middlebrow institutions.

[Anonymous No.19186213]

>>19186164
Bros my pseud detector is off the fucking charts with this guy.

[Anonymous No.19186244]

>>19186213
Getting to be as much of a pseud as possible without publicly embarrassing yourself is the entire appeal of this board.

[Anonymous No.19186328]

>>19186131
you're not supposed to be reasonable on this website

[Anonymous No.19186359]

>>19186328
>advocating for formalism is reasonable, especially in the case of a “writer” whose appeal is related to his social significance

[Anonymous No.19186372]

>>19185294
Literally who the fuck is he? Why couldn't they choose a more famous nigger writer lmao

[Anonymous No.19186426]

>>19185460
>as energetic people who have something to offer
why not offer it to their homeland and make it a better place so that people won't want to leave it?
curious

[Anonymous No.19186429]

Shit is so bland we can’t even meme it.

[Anonymous No.19186447]

>>19185460
Energetic baboons with rape to offer.

[Anonymous No.19186469]

>>19185294
I’m so sick of blacks. Nigger fatigue is real.

[Anonymous No.19186482]

>>19185294
Is there anything more disgusting than a Swede? Why do people give the slightest of fucks about the Swede awards?

[Anonymous No.19186490]

>>19185294
>let's give it to the man with the asian name who writes in english
>let's give it to the man with the african name who writes in english

[Anonymous No.19186505]

>>19186482
you can exchange kronor for dollar

[Anonymous No.19186632]

This might be a dumb question, but can someone explain to me what the 'purpose' of the Nobel is? Like what's the rationale behind their decision making? One year they're giving it to fucking Bob Dylan, the next to some literal who (not commenting on the quality of either of their works). I'm just curious what the committee is trying to "say" when they award a prize.

[Anonymous No.19186642]

>>19185294
this is just another front for social engineering, it is so obvious at this point. and not the good social engineering, the wrong side won ww2.

[Anonymous No.19186650]

>>19185812
based, plus he was a jew that admitted he sold his soul to the devil (not a christian)

[Anonymous No.19186652]

>>19186244
good rejoinder
>dif anon

[Anonymous No.19186665]

>>19186632
To honour a life's work of literature that furthers humanistic values? But that hardly explains many choices after 2000.

[Anonymous No.19186694]

>>19186429
Yeah, people are just sighing and moving on. Shit's so inane and dry that there's nothing to make fun of, there's no joke to be written when the subject is a joke itself.

[Anonymous No.19186709]

>>19185468
Reading this alone made me pirate one of his books of libgen.
I actually like it when a literally nobody gets the nobel, especially if it turns out he's good. We'll see about the last part, but the little I read of him is making me optimistic.

[Anonymous No.19186719]

>>19186632
The Nobel was literally never about quality literature, It was founded with the intention of pushing (neo)liberal propaganda.

[Anonymous No.19186785]

>>19185691
>Christopher Ricks
>He was born in Beckenham, the younger son of James Bruce Ricks, who worked for the family overcoat manufacturing firm, and Gabrielle (née Roszak)

>Louise Glück
>Louise Glück was born in New York City on April 22, 1943. She is the elder of two surviving daughters of Daniel Glück, a businessman, and Beatrice Glück (née Grosby), a homemaker.[5]
>Glück's mother was of Russian Jewish descent.[6] Her paternal grandparents, Terézia (née Moskovitz) and Henrik Glück, were Hungarian Jews from Érmihályfalva in what was then Austria-Hungary (present-day Romania); her grandfather ran a timber company called "Feldmann és Glück".[7][8]

>Bob Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman (Hebrew: שבתאי זיסל בן אברהם Shabtai Zisl ben Avraham)[1][12][13]

I think the palette of your artists and critics is in dire need of some cultural enrichment and diversity, because they're looking pretty boring and homogenous.

[Anonymous No.19186885]

>>19185330
>the only thing brown people can write about is muh racism
Not really true when we're talking about Nobel winners. VS Naipul is a pretty good example of a based brown laureate.

[Anonymous No.19186994]

>>19185691
Dylan is a hack. KYS

[Anonymous No.19187000]

>>19186994
>Dylan is a hack. KYS
shhh

[Anonymous No.19187047]

/lit/s opinion on any novelist after 1975 is irrelevant

[Anonymous No.19187061]

>>19187047
The program era has been the worst period for literature in all of human history.

[Anonymous No.19187151]

>>19185580
Seems interesting, I will buy this book and Paradise whenever they start to be sold in my country. People who know about African literature seem surprised that, of all African writers, he won. But apparently the few that have read him claim that he's good. I'm a bit disappointed an English-speaker won again, though.
>>19186709
Based reader

[Anonymous No.19187156]

>>19187047
/lit/s opinion is irrelevant

[Anonymous No.19187160]

Who gives a fuck what a bunch of Jew-selected shniggers have to say

[Anonymous No.19187241]

At least they didn't give it to Colson Whitehead

[Anonymous No.19187251]

>>19187241
give them some credit. Whitehead was obviously never on the table

[Anonymous No.19187280]

rumour has it Houellebecq will win in 2022, the year in which his novel Submission takes place

[Anonymous No.19187644]

How 'good' are other Nobel winners from brownish nations, like Rabindranath Tagore or Naguib Mahfouz?

[Anonymous No.19188570]

Snubbed again!

[Anonymous No.19188645]

>>19187644
Song Offering by Tagore is absolutely essential stuff.

[Anonymous No.19188740]

I told you fucking morons they were going to give it to some literal who brown person but none of you believed me. Clown world marches on!

[Anonymous No.19188744]

>>19185294
The Nobel prize is a scam.

[Anonymous No.19188749]

>>19185460
Well that’s just not very accurate

[Anonymous No.19188754]

>>19187151
English is the best language.

[Anonymous No.19188782]

>>19188744
indeed

[Anonymous No.19189050]

>>19187047
I think you meant any writer after 1975 is irrelevant. Literally none of this people will be remembered.

[Anonymous No.19189235]

>>19187644
Mahfouz is good, read Miramar to get an idea of him and see how you like it.

[Anonymous No.19189255]

>>19187644
walcott is certified dank af

[Anonymous No.19189260]

wtf murakami bros???? WE lost...

[Anonymous No.19189336]

>>19186426
Some are cast out because of civil war (started by mining companies and their warlord henchmen) or because of drought or famine. He just thinks African movement to Europe is new but not the other way round. He thinks Europeans need to come to terms with refugees as the Africans did with the European “other”.

[Anonymous No.19189359]

who was the last truly remarkable writer to win the prize? vargas llosa?

[Anonymous No.19189397]

>>19189359
>vargas llosa
Nah it’s Handke

[Anonymous No.19189456]

>>19187280
Rumor has it the events of Submission will happen in 2022 as well

[Anonymous No.19189931]

>>19185294
literally who?

[Anonymous No.19189956]

>>19187644
Tagore is great.

[Anonymous No.19191425]

>>19185511
>not for the social importance of the subject matter?
Like Kipling?

[Anonymous No.19191458]

>>19187151
>I'm a bit disappointed an English-speaker won again, though.
The nobel committee doesn't like reading translations. Based

[Anonymous No.19191476]

>>19185294
BIPOC be winning, stay mad crakazz

[Anonymous No.19191484]

>>19185460
All they can offer is rape