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Nobel Anonymous Sat Nov 24 04:36:14 2012 No.3174274 [DELETED]

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Hey, /lit/, I'm really intrested in one question. Oh, I can assume the answer, but I would like to know your opinion.
Actually I have doubts in Nobel Committee's sanity (at least concerning the prize in literature). From time to time they make really strange choices, for example, I like Samuel Becket and I can understand why he got Nobel Prize, but actully, why didn't Joyce? The strangest thing. Moreover, does anyone know who Sully-Prudhomme is? I suppose, only a few. Does anyone know who Marcel Proust is? I suppose, many. And who do you think was Nobel laureate and who wasn't?

So, /lit/, I would like to know your opinion, why such things happen. And maybe you assume some authors who as you think didn't really deserve Nobel Prize and got it, and vice versa

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 24 04:45:15 2012 No.3174285 >>3174274 Joyce, Proust, yes. I'm with you Do not like Bunin and Pasternak

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 24 04:50:13 2012 No.3174293 >>3174274 bump

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 24 05:01:13 2012 No.3174304 Yeah. Don't take any Nobel Prize seriously. See: 1974 - when the Nobel Prize committee decided that Nabokov, Borges, and Graham Greene were all much less deserving than two Scandinavian authors who happened to be members of the Nobel Prize committee.

Anonymous Sat Nov 24 05:15:12 2012 No.3174313

>>3174274
the only reason anyone cares about the Noble is cause of the cash prize, it's just some tattered war mongers way of restoring his reputation that the benefactors take way to seriously, no one really respects it (joust look at how they embarrassed Obama with their try hard peace bullshit, cringe worthy, fumbling politically minded idiots trying desperately to exert a hypocritical influence transient affairs)

the MacArthur is much better at identifying and awarding prizes to actual relevant people who are doing interesting shit

Anonymous Sat Nov 24 08:18:24 2012 No.3174456

>>3174274
So the most well-known author should get the prize? J.K. Rowling is much more well-known than Proust or Joyce. Or why not E.L. James? The thing is, Joyce and Proust have both become well-known posthumously, atleast more known than they were during their life-time. And yes, I know who Proudhomme is, and I'm sure that during his lifetime he was atleast as well known as Proust.

Anonymous Sat Nov 24 08:27:12 2012 No.3174468

>>3174274
>why didn't Joyce?

Because Yeats won it in '23, and they weren't going to give it to another paddy so quickly.

When Finnegans Wake was published in '39, people had bigger things on their mind, and there was no prize for a few years, for obvious reasons.

also, Joyce wasn't good enough

As for why Proust didn't receive the prize, well, that is a puzzler.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 24 08:28:12 2012 No.3174473 >>3174468 >Joyce wasn't good enough YOU DON'T TROLL ME BOY

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 24 08:31:12 2012 No.3174481 Moreover, does anyone know who Doris Lessing is? I suppose, only a few. Does anyone know who J.K. Rowling is? I suppose, many. And who do you think was Nobel laureate and who wasn't?

Anonymous Sat Nov 24 08:44:12 2012 No.3174516

>>3174473
Joyce wasn't good. YOU don't troll me boy.
oh wait nevermind... forget my poor and superfluous attempt to troll.

I'll cite my english teacher: "Ulysses? I haven't read it, but I mean honestly, how good can it be? I heard it only recounts the events of one day."

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 24 08:48:12 2012 No.3174526 >>3174516 Buddy I live in Ireland and there are teachers when I was at school who didn't view him as the fucking Irish messiah as they should have and instead said Ulysses was just the work of an erudite mind. I mean jesus.

>>	Tao Lin Sat Nov 24 09:32:12 2012 No.3174591 >>3174526 Ireland brofist When I was young Joyce was just one of those boring guys they liked to do documentaries on, like Beckett, Yeats, Wilde, Heaney etc.

Anonymous Sat Nov 24 09:34:12 2012 No.3174594

Guys, it's really, really difficult to predict which authors will endure in posterity, and the Committee also have a social obligation to spread their winners out equally across the globe.

All things considered I think the Nobel is probably the most credible literary award.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 24 09:54:12 2012 No.3174613 File: 29 KB, 196x285, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Proust >deserving of anything

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 24 10:15:12 2012 No.3174638 >>3174594 James Tait Black.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 24 11:10:12 2012 No.3174758 They tend to give those prizes to "safe" authors. Neither Proust or Joyce were safe in their time.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 24 12:39:12 2012 No.3174971 >>3174758 exactly

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