Re: JCO: Re: Nobel for literature to be awarded Thursday, 10/13/2005

Nobody is a shoo-in this year; from the scuttlebut I've heard, that's why the awards weren't made last week on the first Thursday of the month.  Tremendous dissension in the ranks.

 

There was an unprecedent article in today's NYTimes Arts Section noting that Knut Ahnlund, one of the judges quit his appointment and absolutely virulently trashed Elfriede Jelinek, last year's Austrian winner....wrote that her writing was "a mass of text that appears shoveled together without a trace of artistic structure..." and he further doubted that the committee had even read most of her work.  WOW.

 

That kind of publicity does not bode well for JCO who has ridiculously been criticized for  prolificity.

 

We don't really know what's going on....there's usually  no hint of dissension....but speculation is always fun.  We can only keep our fingers crossed that depth and diversity over a lifetime will be suitably rewarded.