Liar
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Nobel Prize of literature goes to... some french dude.
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JAMESBJOHNSON
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Everyone gets a gold star in today's world. I think they flip a coin.
dr_mabeuse
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It's a pen name of Scouries', no doubt.
ishtat
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I read one of his books and thought he was rather pretentious and a bit of a tryhard in appealing to the academic reader. I started a second book but it was just turgid. Failed to finish.
But I am not much of a fan of a lot of modern European literature - so count me as at least a bit prejudiced.
But I am not much of a fan of a lot of modern European literature - so count me as at least a bit prejudiced.
voluptuary_manque
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For the last 25 years or more, the Nobel Prize for literature has been a comical exercise in political and literary "correctness". No author who really sells books need worry about what to say when awarded the prize because you won't be. The cretin in charge of the committee even implied as much -- and the rest of the world knows it.
poppy_cock
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Couldn't agree more. It seems to be true of more and more of the so-called great literary prizes.
Hmm, if you could choose, which author would you nominate?
Frank Noir
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Read his short story collection "Fever" when I was a teenager. Several times, in fact. It made a huge impression on me. Hard to explain why, though. It just seemed to touch on certain states of mind in a truly original way.
tickledkitty
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Is it possible the French guy's stuff loses something in translation?
