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Who is your favorite nobel prize in literature winner?

>> No.16914328

>>16914319
Yeats
Mann
Hesse

>> No.16914368

José Saramago

>> No.16914387

Tolstoy. Oh wait he was never awarded it and that hack fraud prize is forever discredited because of it. Bob Dylan wins but not ol’ Tolstoy - eat my ass you retarded Swedes.

>> No.16914395

>>16914319
Yeats

>> No.16914488

>>16914387
Tolstoy was considered for the prize but when he found out that he was he wrote them a letter saying he didn't want it. The Swedes have no fault in this.

>> No.16914498

>>16914488
>*give it to him anyway*

>> No.16914504

>>16914368
Read Lobo Antunes. Much better.

>> No.16914507

hemingway
>>16914387
I agree its weird to give it to a songwriter, but he will almost certainly be remembered as the greatest american songwriter, and he is worthy of such an honor to me.

>> No.16914514

>>16914319
Borges

>> No.16914516

>>16914319
Faulkner

>> No.16914517

Proust.

>> No.16914528

>>16914507
But Bob Dylan can't even write a good song. Don Mclean was better and he still falls within the lines of typical commercial pop music.

>> No.16914531

>>16914528
>But Bob Dylan can't even write a good song. Don Mclean was bette
not gonna waste my time.

>> No.16914539

>>16914319
Hesse gang, where we at?

>> No.16914547

>>16914319
Yeats
Maeterlinck
Beckett

Proust
Joyce
Nabokov
Tolstoy
Stoppard

>> No.16914553

>>16914387
I like Bob Dylan and don't really mind that he was given the award. The only problem I have with it is that he was given the award while there are outstanding authors who really deserve it but are passed over every year

As for the thread topic, probably Faulkner. As I Lay Dying and TSATF are two of my favorite books

>> No.16914557

>>16914553
They to give it to him before he dies

>> No.16914559

So they all read translations of the works?How else does some chink win?

>> No.16914564

>>16914557
had to*

>> No.16914608

>>16914319
Me.

Do your thing 4chan.

>> No.16914613

>>16914531
Show me ONE good song by Bob Dylan that makes him "America's best songwriter" you hack!

>> No.16914628

>>16914498
That's what they did to Sartre

>> No.16914636

>>16914613
Blowin' in the Wind

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16914712

>>16914319
this dumbhead lol

>> No.16914735

Wole Basedinka. Motherfucker can write.
Also Le Clezio

>> No.16914738

>>16914517
>>16914547
Proust didn't win it, retards.

>> No.16914744

>>16914735
What the fuck happened here
S o y i n k a

>> No.16914758

>>16914528
>>16914507
Springsteen and Cohen were better.

>> No.16914776

>>16914636
Much better than most of his works, but it's by no means worthy of "best American songwriter", I mean come on.

>>16914758
I don't really like Bob Dylan but come on anon, I like Springsteen more personally, but I don't think he has more artistic originality or capability.

>> No.16914797

>>16914319
basedinka

>> No.16914816

>>16914776
>Much better than most of his works, but it's by no means worthy of "best American songwriter", I mean come on.
His body of work and the fact that he's been covered more than any other songwriter is qualification enough to me. His influence in music is palpable. And I think the literature award is fair because he brought a real sense of poetry to songwriting. Heck, poetry as a mainstream artform died and then continued in the form of song lyrics. Dylan is simply the essential modern bard, and that's why he got the award.

>> No.16914852

>>16914816
>Heck, poetry as a mainstream artform died and then continued in the form of song lyrics. Dylan is simply the essential modern bard, and that's why he got the award.
Fair enough, but there's a moral problem here rather than a legislative one: that is that modern song lyrics are the evolution of a commercialised business and the final "producing" decay of art-aesthetics since Descartes.

It's still shit compared to anything else prior to when they started accepting fucken songwriters lmao.

>> No.16914860

>>16914816
I agree that he managed to produce so many songs seemingly on the same level of high quality (for modern songs) is impressive though, but again, only impressive for the industry and not qualitatively because his song style is very easily immitatable.

>> No.16914883

>>16914852
>>16914860

I agree, that music is far more a commercial artform than literature, so giving a literature award to a songwriter is a dicey preposition. But I believe if there is one case where you can make an exception it's with Dylan, and I suppose they felt the same way and wanted to do it before he croaked.

>> No.16914887
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16914887

What does /lit/ think of Elvis?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Feyu3er5fRc

>> No.16914895

>>16914887
He's awesome. Excellent singer, and one of the all time great performers. He was dripping with charisma. I re-watch the Comeback Special annually.

>> No.16914907

>>16914319
murakami soon.

>> No.16914921

>>16914883
And of course, modern music IS even more commercial. I guess if they needed someone, he was one of the best.

In any event, it's representative of the great tragedy in which modern culture has fallen into.

>> No.16914922

>>16914758
>Springsteen
Heh. Listen to Springsteen's first two records. You get the impression he hung a portrait of Dylan over his headboard.

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16914930

>>16914887
How do I be this charismatic?

>> No.16914942

>>16914930
Elvis level of charisma is the kind of genetic mutation that comes around very rarely. Like Newton's brain, or Ron Jeremy's cock.

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16914982

>>16914895
>Comeback Special
Kino.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-pP_dCenJA

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>>16914982
If you ever get the chance check out the full 4 disc The Complete '68 Comeback Special. It really showcases something Elvis doesn't get enough credit for: his sense of humor. Dude is funny as hell. Not Beatles funny, but very funny.

>> No.16915064

>>16915015
It is certain from this point that I will, thank you for the rec anon.

Also, how would you say the Beetles are funny?

>> No.16915084

>>16915064
The Beatles are fucking hilarious. They might have been as funny as they were brilliant musicians. You won't hear it on their studio records, you gotta look for it elsewhere, such as The Beatles' Christmas records, Live at the BBC, the bootlegs (Revolver sessions, White Album sessions, Get Back sessions), and of course the radio and live interviews. They were very whimsical and quick witted. Hearing Paul and John go back and forth is as good as any comedy pair.

>> No.16915086

>>16914319
basedinka

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16915132

>>16915084
Oh and the movies. How could I forget the movies?

>> No.16915205

>>16914319
Bob Dylan

>> No.16915215

>>16915084
>>16915132
I'll check those out, it'll be a good way to get into the Beetles too I suppose.

>> No.16915221

>>16915215
You never listened to the Beatles my dude?

>> No.16915620

>>16915221
I have, but not *that* much.

>> No.16915643

>>16914319
Sebald :(

>> No.16915656

Winston Churchill or Thomas Mann

>> No.16916264

>>16914712
How did he get this award? What did he write?

>> No.16916488

>>16914319
I really enjoy Miguel Ángel Asturias desu

>> No.16916507

the corn-cobby chronicler

>> No.16916515

>>16914319
Handke simply because of the massive butthurt he caused

>> No.16917272

>>16915643
You know he would've got it too. He'd have been the first great writer to win it in a long time. Rip my hero

>> No.16917309

Obama

>> No.16917328

>>16914547
Joyce never won
Which is absurd

>> No.16917383

>>16914776
Sad-eyed Lady of the Lowlands? Visions of Johanna? Sara?

>> No.16917397

Mario Vargas Llosa or Gunter Grass, would be Salman Rushdie if they had balls to award him

>> No.16917418

>>16917383
>Sad-eyed Lady of the Lowlands?
Utterly pathetic if you think it stands as a literary work of any value.

>> No.16917632

>>16917397
>Rushdie
They gave it to Handke lmao. No controversy is stopping Rushdie from getting it, he's just not that good.

>> No.16917664

>>16914319
Yeats
Kipling
Hamsun
Mann
Eliot
Camus
Steinbeck
Beckett
Neruda
Márquez
Coetzee

>> No.16917689

>>16914319
>Steinbeck
Tagore
Yeats
Bergson
Gide
Eliot
Faulkner
Camus
Saint-John Perse
Beckett
Böll

>> No.16917697

>>16914319
Eugene O’Neill

>> No.16917834

>>16914498
Maybe he wrote a very compelling letter

>> No.16917893

>>16914319
Tagore
Grass
Claude Simon
Yeats
Elytis
Faulkner
Saint-John Perse
Vargas Llosa

>> No.16918678

>>16916264
It's a political thing.

>> No.16918817

daily reminder that if you care or give anything to any award you're a fucking faggot and you should promptly kill yourself

>> No.16919241

Claude Simon

>> No.16919264

>>16914613
Blonde on Blonde