/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.8830043]

Which authors deserved the Nobel but never won it?

[Anonymous No.8830068]

[Anonymous No.8830094]

[Anonymous No.8830112]

>>8830043
he deserved it for the tunnel.

[Anonymous No.8830261]

Is The Tunnel really a metaphor for anal sex?

[Anonymous No.8830463]

>>8830261
No, it's a metaphor for vaginal sex, you gaywad.

[Anonymous No.8830505]

>>8830043
Put things in perspective! Unfortunately, the Nobel Prize has been awarded to many minor writers, at the expense of many important writers. A list of the great writers who never received the Nobel Prize, notwithstanding a general recognition of their achievements, includes:
>BORGES, one of the most influential literary figures of the 20th century
>BRECHT, the founder of modern theatre
>CONRAD, one of the greatest novelists in English of all times
>GARCIA LORCA, one of the greatest Spanish poets of the last three centuries
>IBSEN, one of the greatest playwrights of all times
>JAMES, possibly the greatest USA novelist of all times
>JOYCE, considered by many the most influential writer of the 20th century
>KAFKA, greatest German novelist of the 20th century
>NABOKOV, one of the greatest USA novelists of the 20th century
>PESSOA, one of the greatest poets of the 20th century
>PROUST, considered by many the greatest French novelist of the 20th century
>VALERY, greatest French poet of the 20th century

On the other hand, absolutely minor (and sometimes terrible) writers have been awarded the prize. Since the 1990s, the winners of the Nobel Prize for literature have been chosen mostly for being "politically correct" (like Fo, Grass and Pamuk at the turn of the century). But many are simply mysterious decisions. It is difficult to understand what makes the jury prefer mediocre, provincial writers to so many greater writers. The Nobel Prize is awarded by a Swedish Academy. The writers of Sweden (a country of 30 million people) have won more prizes than the writers of all of Asia (a continent of one billion people). Is it the rest of the world that is illiterate and uncreative, or is it the Swedish academia that is provincial, nationalistic and anachronistic?

Of all literary prizes for literature the Nobel Prize has become by far the least meaningful.

[Anonymous No.8830561]

>>8830505
>talks about how few asian authors have gotten it
>no asians listed among the snubs
>list includes authors whose acclaim is largely based on things published after their death
retarded pasta desu

[Anonymous No.8830632]

>>8830261
This is what you look like right now.

[Anonymous No.8831810]

Leonard Cohen

[Anonymous No.8831826]

>>8830632
I think he just posted that picture because it's funny

[Anonymous No.8832211]

>>8830094
Of course Borges and Abe Kobo. For fuck's sake they gave it to damn Oe's sentimental ass and passed over Japan's greatest novelist of the past 100 years.

[Anonymous No.8832322]

>>8830043
Camil Petrescu

[Anonymous No.8832380]

>>8830561
>Muh affirmative action.
>Muh racial equality.

[Anonymous No.8832382]

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