Search results

Dashing this thread off to shunt it off the 2022 Nobel thread. This is what Ernaux had to say about literature and politics thirty years ago, and her position has not gotten any more fashionable it seems. Let's discuss it here. "Literature and politics" (1989, own translation): One of the most...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/nov/26/mo-yan-nobel-herta-muller Choice extracts: "The choice of the Chinese writer Mo Yan as the winner of this year's Nobel prize for literature is "a slap in the face for all those working for democracy and human rights", according to the author Herta...