Post do Paper Cuts, blog de livros do NYT, e comentário de um internauta:
September 30, 2008, 3:44 PM
Nobel Chief to U.S. Novelists: Drop Dead
By DWIGHT GARNER
The head of the Nobel Prize for Literature’s awards jury, Horace Engdahl, said today that the fiction coming out of the United States can’t compete with the rest of the world’s:
“The U.S. is too isolated, too insular. They don’t translate enough and don’t really participate in the big dialogue of literature,” Engdahl said. “That ignorance is restraining.”
The big picture?
Roth? Updike? Stone? Robinson? Pynchon? Oates? DeLillo? Wha?
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What a surprise, all the NYT’s blogger can do is trot out those tired American warhorses, Updike, Roth, Pynchon, Oates, DeLillo, etc….blah…all thoroughgoing second-raters
Does anyone in his right mind really want to compare these writers to the best living writers in Europe? Harry Mulisch, Hankde, Grass, Nadas, Kundera, Klima, Roberto Calasso, Laszlo Krasznhorkai, Kertesz, Esterhazy, Rushdie, Stoppard (the greatest living playwright)…just to name a few? To say nothing of the greatest writers in the world beyond Europe - Vargas Llosa and Naipaul, for example.
These are literary giants, hunting big game, whose intellectual breadth and depth far outstrip that of the Americans listed above. Face, it, America is indeed second-rate when it comes to producing the world’s greatest literature (and I say this as an American).
— Dennis W
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