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5 days left! Who are you rooting for? Who are you betting on?

>> No.16498483

Anon for "My diary desu"

>> No.16498500

Rooting for Pynchon, betting on some socially relevant garbage.

>> No.16498508

>literary prizes in the year 2020

It should be symbolically given the The Ocean, and the medal tossed into the Mariana Trench.

>> No.16499191
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16499191

what utter BOOBS

>> No.16499225

Haven't read anything by him, but definitely Pynchon

>> No.16499261

>>16498447
Pynch or Kraz, probably going to Cartarescu, some third-world woman, or, god forbid, Rushdie.

>> No.16499271

>>16499261
isn't Rushdie a bit old hat now?

>> No.16499341
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>>16499261
>Rushdie
def not happening

>> No.16499369

Krasznahorkai or Atwood.

>> No.16499379
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16499379

5 more days until another snub!

>> No.16499385

>>16499379
can't give it to someone who might turn out to have been dead for years

>> No.16499387

Krasnahorkai is my pick I think he'll get it for Melancholy or Satantango.

>> No.16499404
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16499404

ITS HIS TURN

>> No.16499422

>>16499341
I thought the same for Handke but then last year happened.

>>16499387
It's always about body of work. Luckily Kraz published a major novel recently, supposedly his last. That always helps.

>> No.16499428

>>16499404
He will never. He is pop trash. Same reason Atwood or Anne fucking Carson won't win. You're going to lose your minds when Marilyn Robinson wins.

>> No.16499441
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16499441

>Oh boy, I can't wait for Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o to win!

>> No.16499487

>>16499441
I like him but he's not gonna win. Per Wästberg says (implicitly) in his foreword to the Swedish translation of Things Fall Apart that Achebe was better. Also his views on literature are contrary to the Academy's.

>> No.16499489

Hoping for: Pynchon, DeLillo, Krasznahorkai, Ngugi, Couto, Cartarescu

Probably going to win: Cartarescu, Ngugi, Can Xue, Condé

>> No.16499498

>>16499369
>Krasznahorkai
Implying the Nobel committee has even read Krasz

>> No.16499524

>>16499487
What are their views?

>> No.16499587
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16499587

>Joyce didn't win the prize
>Proust didn't win the prize
>Pynchon didn't win the prize
>Delillo didn't win the prize
>Roth didn't win the prize
>Nabokov didn't win the prize
>Borges didn't win the prize
>Rilke didn't win the prize
>Henry James didn't win the prize
>Pessoa didn't win the prize
>Mishima didn't win the prize
>Calvino didn't win the prize
>Perec didn't win the prize
>Bernhard didn't win the prize
>Musil didn't win the prize
>Broch didn't win the prize
>Celan didn't win the prize
>Crane didn't win the prize
>Stevens didn't win the prize
>Auden didn't win the prize
>Merrill didn't win the prize
>Gass didn't win the prize
>Gaddis didn't win the prize
>Shakespeare didn't win the prize
>Donne didn't win the prize
>Dante didn't win the prize
>Milton didn't win the prize
>Hegel didn't win the prize
>Deleuze didn't win the prize
>Murakami didn't win the prize
>Cohen didn't win the prize
>And yet.....

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16499594

Rooting for my nigga Krasznahorkai

>> No.16499632

>>16499587
Yessen how many times must an author be snubbed
Before he receives his prize?
Yessen how many times can they give this award
Before Mr. Pynchon dies?

>> No.16499673

>>16499524
the opposite of this
>Ngugi argued in an influential essay called "Writers in Politics," [that] it was important for African writers to overcome the traditional separation between aesthetics and politics
>Poking fun at politicians was not the way to go about developing a critique of neo-colonial society, because satire, as Ngugi argued in a rather impatient critique of Basedinka, assumed a measure of superiority over politics. Satire, Ngugi argued, privileged the aesthetic, and with it, bourgeois individualism: "Basedinka's good man is the uncorrupted individual: his liberal humanism leads him to admire an individual's lone act of courage, and thus often he ignores the creative struggle of the masses.
(personally I don't have any strong feelings about these sorts of things)

>> No.16499687

>>16499587
>mishima
>dante
>Shakespeare
>no tolstoy
Come on now

>> No.16499696

>>16499271
>>16499624

>> No.16499701
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16499701

Michel Hollaback will storm through the half empty ceremony hall and dao a Kanye, snatching it from Atwood's hands.

>> No.16499756

>>16498447
Can Xue fucking rules.

>> No.16499778

>>16498447
Rooting for Kundera or Marias.

>> No.16499788

What is Can Xue's best?

>> No.16499789

>>16499701
no ceremony this year due to plague

>> No.16499791

>>16499369
>Atwood
please no
>>16499404
terrible

>> No.16499794
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16499794

Another /mu/ fag just to see this board seeth

>> No.16499806

>>16498508
based let poseidon choose the winrar

>> No.16499815

>>16499385
dfw is alive and well, but thanks for your concern anon

>> No.16499848

>>16499789
Corona is a crown upon the face of the earth.

>> No.16499850

>>16499788
Love in the New Millennium is dope.

The way she constructs her worlds is super psychedelic, but in this really subtle, understated way. All the characters live within each other’s dreams, to different degrees of their own awareness. It’s honestly the only fiction that can hold my attention anymore.

>> No.16499853

>>16499806
ummmm i think you mean neptune, anon

>> No.16499876

>>16499673
>Basedinka
lmao

>> No.16500179
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>>16499673
>Satire, Ngugi argued, privileged the aesthetic, and with it, bourgeois individualism: "Basedinka's good man is the uncorrupted individual: his liberal humanism leads him to admire an individual's lone act of courage, and thus often he ignores the creative struggle of the masses.
What did he mean by this? Why does satire have to be individualistic? Wouldn't Brecht be considered a non-individualistic satirist?

>> No.16500207

>>16499498
Why would they not have? He's not obscure.

>> No.16500279

>>16499789
I thought Sweden didn't believe in lockdowns?

>> No.16500371

>>16499587
Didn't Mishima ask for it to be given to Kawabata instead?

>> No.16500387

>>16500279
events with more than 50 people in the audience are banned, also alot of countries won't allow people to come here
>>16500179
I don't know. I tried finding the essay but apparently he later rewrote it and I could only the new version. FWIW I did find a longer version of the quote from some Bengali blogpost.
>Basedinka’s good man is the uncorrupted individual. His liberal humanism leads him to admire an individual’s lone act of courage, and thus often he ignores the creative struggle of the masses. The ordinary people, the workers and peasants, in his plays remain passive watchers on the shore or pitiful comedians on the road.
>Wouldn't Brecht be considered a non-individualistic satirist?
or Ngugi himself...