BirneHelene

Oct 7 2011, 06:46 AM

No, what is mainly annoying (at least to me) is that disgusting Roth worshipping. Only Roth and nobody else. I cannot stand it any longer

What annoys me most about grandpa Ranicki is that he is seen as something like a literature guru in Germany, meaning that everything he says is taken as the divine and definite word on any matter related to literature. So if he says Roth is god then he is god and everybody is parroting the same shit over and over, Hail Roth, Roth should get the Nobel, If Roth is not worthy then nobody is. I cannot hear it anymore, I get sick. And it really does not matter for me if Roth is Nobel worthy or not in this respect. That is not the point. I can understand why people consider him a serious candidate for the prize, sure. But the way it is done in Germany (but also in the US) is just disgusting.

But in reality Ranicki is just an old, probably senile guy somewhere above 90, who probably made a lot of really relevant contributions to literary criticism like decades ago, but the last few years is mostly known for making very very silly or plain stupid remarks about all kinds of things. They should just leave this old guy alone. I can imagine how the journalists are waiting on his front lawn every year just before the Nobel is announced. So maybe he was surprised this time and just wanted to take a his morning piss and did not have time to think first, who knows, or maybe he is just senile. Because if he really has never heard of Tranströmer one should get worried about his knowledge of European literature.

Canox

Oct 7 2011, 07:25 AM

ahahahahah you will love this

Michael Naumann, publisher, journalist and politician expresses his disappointment about Roth not winning and says, wait for it, that Franzen (!) and Eugenides (!!) will have to wait out the anti-american bias of the academy to be able to win the prize.

the article is called "Roth and Franzen have to wait" http://www.cicero.de/salon/literaturnobelpreis-tomas-transtr%C3%B6mer-roth-und-franzen-muessen-warten/46077

Bjorn

Oct 7 2011, 07:28 AM

Swedish papers are speculating on how Tranströmer will manage a Nobel lecture, since he's practically mute. The current theory is that he'll play the piano.

Elie

Oct 7 2011, 07:29 AM

Bjorn

Oct 7 2011, 07:28 AM

Swedish papers are speculating on how Tranströmer will manage a Nobel lecture, since he's practically mute. The current theory is that he'll play the piano.

Could he write it and have someone else deliver it, or is that against the rules?

BirneHelene

Oct 7 2011, 07:31 AM

Ahh and Proust again!!!!!!!!!!! (I am referring to the article Canox quoted above)

BirneHelene

Oct 7 2011, 07:31 AM

Ahh and Proust again!!!!!!!!!!! (I am referring to the article Canox quoted above)

Bjorn

Oct 7 2011, 07:30 AM

Elie

Oct 7 2011, 07:29 AM

Bjorn

Oct 7 2011, 07:28 AM

Swedish papers are speculating on how Tranströmer will manage a Nobel lecture, since he's practically mute. The current theory is that he'll play the piano.

Could he write it and have someone else deliver it, or is that against the rules?

You'd think so. I honestly don't know what the rules say in this case.

oneofmurphysbiscuits

Oct 7 2011, 01:09 PM

Bjorn

Oct 7 2011, 07:30 AM

Elie

Oct 7 2011, 07:29 AM

Bjorn

Oct 7 2011, 07:28 AM

Swedish papers are speculating on how Tranströmer will manage a Nobel lecture, since he's practically mute. The current theory is that he'll play the piano.

Could he write it and have someone else deliver it, or is that against the rules?

You'd think so. I honestly don't know what the rules say in this case.

why on earth should it be against the rules, that would be discriminatory. Heaven forfend that the prize should ever be won by someone who started out with less than perfecr speech, or not being able to speak, as opposed to becoming disabled, huh? . Howsoever Tomas now chooses to describe himself and should the business of speech making prove to effortful for him, that's one thing,but a person's having less than perfect speech does not make for the stuff of idle curiosity and should not make for discrimination

kline19

Oct 7 2011, 12:45 PM

johnny: i think if Rushdie ditched all this globalization stuff he's using as the material and write a novel exclusively based in kashmir or india or Bombay - it'd be something to look out for.

Thomas Hounds

Oct 7 2011, 01:22 PM

oneofmurphysbiscuits

Oct 7 2011, 01:09 PM

Bjorn

Oct 7 2011, 07:30 AM

Elie

Oct 7 2011, 07:29 AM

Bjorn

Oct 7 2011, 07:28 AM

Swedish papers are speculating on how Tranströmer will manage a Nobel lecture, since he's practically mute. The current theory is that he'll play the piano.

Could he write it and have someone else deliver it, or is that against the rules?

You'd think so. I honestly don't know what the rules say in this case.

why on earth should it be against the rules, that would be discriminatory. Heaven forfend that the prize should ever be won by someone who started out with less than perfecr speech, or not being able to speak, as opposed to becoming disabled, huh? . Howsoever Tomas now chooses to describe himself and should the business of speech making prove to effortful for him, that's one thing,but a person's having less than perfect speech does not make for the stuff of idle curiosity and should not make for discrimination

There have been standins before, I believe Lessing's lecture was delivered by someone else.

Canox

Oct 7 2011, 01:42 PM

kline19

Oct 7 2011, 12:45 PM

johnny: i think if Rushdie ditched all this globalization stuff he's using as the material and write a novel exclusively based in kashmir or india or Bombay - it'd be something to look out for.

do you feel the kashmir chapters of Shalimar or the India chapters of Ground are up to his older work? what then gives you the confidence that writing a whole novel of this would result in anything close to the greatness of Shame, Moor or verses?