Words, Words, Words - it's only words (Jul/21/2009 )
fate
well, if Hermann Hesse won (among the hundreds nominated), yes it was strange......
doom destiny
but there are so many forgotten, Hesse is not bad I like him and at lest here many still read his books...but: Carl Spitteler, Anatole France, Grazia Deledda, Pär Lagerkvist, Nelly Sachs, and many more, never heard of them...but perhaps it's my narrow view and Eurocentric anyway
kismet
oh yeah, we're so ignorant.......and Hesse is depressing...Mark Twain didn't get it either...
fatalism
..but Twain isn't he just an author for light fiction or books for young people? Stanislaw Lem also didn't get it...he died some years ago...
resignation
well at least he was funny...he's a novelist and essayist....Orwell didn't get it too...Ibsen, Auden, Miller etc. you're right there are too many of them but only one wins a year...
designation
funny? only the Yankee book, but the most famous Tom Sawyer stuff is boring as fiction.
design
and they say that the Nobel Literature Prize committees has always been traditionally anti-american...I think it was last year when the award was given to the French guy Le Clézio..the american authors were criticised by one of the committee members for being insular, parochial, limited or something like that...I forgot the details or probably it was just my imagination..
function follows form
Paul Auster would be a good candidate then, herewith my official nominee
Toni Morrison was the last US, at least someone not forgotten. BTW where are the Canadians? Mdme Atwood would also be possible...
Harmony
the Leviathan and Solitude guy....grim....why am I not surprised ...and I forgot that you're an Atwood fan too....I would nominate her.....
golden ratio
and she's the dystopia writer