Re: JCO: RE: Nobel Prize

In a message dated 10/14/2005 12:09:34 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Cyranomish@aol.com writes:

Hi, Steve.  Yeah, we're not very popular right now.  But perhaps JCO's
portrayals of US culture -- warts and all -- might appeal to the judges.  (PS:
technically, Bellow was Canadian, though his writing is thoroughly Usonian -- to
use Frank Lloyd Wright's precise designation for all things pertaining to the
USA.)
Cyrano

Toni Morrison won the Nobel in 1993, and the United States became involved in the Gulf War just two years earlier (the resolution passed the House of Representatives in January 1991 with exactly 50 more nays than the current Iraq war). I can't recall what the situation was in 1993, as I was too young to be politically cognizant, but of course that situation was not as inflammatory as the current war, and with this war--well, let's just say I hope that JCO lives to be VERY old if indeed an American can't win the Nobel while we're involved in Iraq. As for Pinter being a Brit, I get the sense that the people of Britain have been a lot angrier for a lot longer about the war than people in the USA, as a whole.

 

Andy