I will never stop being surprised at the Nobel Prize going to writers I never heard about.
I don’t think it’s humanly possible to read more than I do. I browse new and notable books daily because it’s how I have fun. And I never heard this writer’s name.
If you want to go with France, the country does have a great writer with global name recognition. It’s Michel Houellebecq. Awarding the prize to anybody else from France is simply bizarre.
The Peace Nobel I don’t even want to discuss because it’s simply stupid.
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You would probably like the content of Ernaux’s fiction, but not its form, if you can separate both things. Les années is probably the best novel I read from her.
Oh, and because I annoy everyone with that author. If you have time, read Kevin Lambert’s Que ma joie demeure, or Querelle de Roberval. It’s literature.
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Well, if you know her that gives me hope.
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Go through the list of Nobel prize winners for literature: you’ll find a lot of eminently forgettable and indeed forgotten nobodies, the vast majority of them in fact. Ernaux will join their ranks in a very short while. What she writes is not literature and will not outlast our fractious times.
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I do not know a single person who actually cares about the Nobel prize for literature. If I personally happen to hear from somewhere about the winner, I take it as a recommendation not to read their work.
I used to care a lot about the science winners (physics, chemistry, medicine). Not anymore. Having a front seat to the Covid panic among the science masses was also not helpful in this respect.
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It’s hard to choose good Nobel prize winners, but overall the Danes do a pretty good job of it. It’s even nice that they announce the peace prize from Oslo, the capital of Sweden…
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