http://www.theguardian.com/books/20 16/jan/06/borges-auden-n

He deserved it. People like to bitch about the nobels but the winners are always great in some way.
Also Nabokov is in no way Nobel Material. Borges possibly, but not Nabokov.

>>7592049
incorrigible stupidity

>>7592049
>the best prose ever written in the language after joyce
>not worthy of nobel

>>7592055
>>7592087
It takes more than being fucking pretty to win the nobel. You can tell because sartre won.

>>7592031
It's a dumb prize given out by pseudo intellectual Swedes.

>>7592055
How long did it take you to find that word in your Mac's dictionary

>>7592049
lol

>>7592049
>the winners are always great in some way.
Don't even try to defend Churchill or Russell, faggot

nabokov

>rich
>aristocratic
>heterosexual
>educated


no wonder he didn't win a nobel

>>7592555
A lot of people use that word. Sorry you don't read.

>>7592094
Sartre won because he was a communist.

OP linked a grauniad article instead of the actual list because he's a paid shill. Here's the list: http://www.svenskaakademien.se/sites/default/files/forslagslista_1965.pdf

>>7592576
>Jukio Mishima
Lol

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>not knowing Шoлoхoв

>>7592566
Nah, retard. Keep using that thesaurus, babby

>>7592595
you're really making an ass of yourself chief

>>7592583
>Even in the light of clear evidence what sound the letter J makes in Swedish, both from context and from common sense, I'm going to make a stupid joke anyway

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>>7592031
>who the fuck is sholokhov

OP pls

>>7592620
Nah, schoolboy. Keep getting buttblasted

>>7592629
It's funny, faggot.

>>7592031
Quiet flows the don retard.

>>7592087

Nabokov's prose is hardly inimitable. In fact I wouldn't even call it frequently good.

Have anyone here read this Sholokhov fellow?

>>7592555
anon got btfo desu

>>7592087
>>the best prose ever written in the language after joyce
This is hardly true.

>>7592634
>>7592732
>I don't know extremely common words because I'm an illiterate retard who doesn't belong on /lit/

>>7592576
>Adorno
A brilliant man, but I wouldn't even consider him for a literary award.

>>7592751
>being this assmad
O I am lauffin

>>7592906
You're pissed of that you didn't know that word, and it's making me LOL.

>>7592726
Yeah - he's one of the better 20th century Russian writers. I'm guessing the main reason for him getting it And Quiet Is The Don, which is pretty good though probably not a work of overwhelming genius. Think War And Peace but with cossacks between 1905 and 1920.

>>7592555
He probably just watched the Sound of Music like everyone else.

>>7592055
Someone Meme this please.

The Nobel is a joke

>Vargas Llosa got it
>Jorge Luis Borges, the most influential writter of the XX Century with Joyce and Kafka didn't

>Yasunari Kawabata got the same year Mishima was nominated.

Fuck that shit. The NBA for fiction is a better award in comparison, and Stephen King is an honorary winner.

>>7593204
>Vargas Llosa got it
>complaining about Llosa getting it
pleb alert

>>7592907
>>7592906
>>7592751
>>7592634
>>7592620
>>7592595
>>7592566

The verdict is in - you are both gargantuan faggots. The initial banter >>7592555 was well executed and blessed with trips, but the lengthy shit-smearing that followed was highly homo, and detracted entirely from the initial value of the bantz.

Stop being such faggots, please.

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>>7592565
Hesse won tho. But again, he wasn't a nazi.

Why are all the Nobel winners of the past twenty years literal nobodies?

>>7593204
>he thinks Mishima is better than Kawabata

confirmed hasn't read anything by Kawabata kek

>>7593530
>they're not memed on /lit/
>i'm an uneducated retard who doesn't know anything about literature
>time to call some of the best writers literal nobodies

wew lad

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>>7592031
>Implying nobel prize has any reasonable basis

>>7594018
this pretty much

>>7592031
Quiet Flows the Don is a magnificent book.

>>7593240
That post sucked actually.

>>7593530
Modiano, Munro, Tranströmer, Vargas Llosa, Pinter, Coetzee, Naipaul, Grass and Saramago were already among the most well-known and highly-regarded authors in the world prior to winning the prize, actually, and the same is probably true for most of the others.

>>7593999
This is almost universally the case when it comes to nobel discussion on /lit/

>>7592031
Literalure Nobel Prize is pure politics, that's why

>>7596236
Not just Nobel all awards are.

>>7592031
It never matters the quality of the work, but only the qualities of the writer. Ie... how they are outside of the work. Like most if not all lit rewards, its a joke to anybody who cares about quality or the art form as a whole.

>>7596326
it's a joke to us internet newspaper pundits and /lit/ards, the nobel is incredibly important for anyone who's actually involved with literature in a real way.

>>7593530
I'd say the winners for the past twenty-odd years have all been authors with one Goldfinch-esque bestseller in their respective countries, but you could all accuse of them of the same provincialism that the Nobel Committee trotted out to explain why Americans haven't won for so long.

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>>7592031
butthurt nabokov fans

>>7593204
>>Jorge Luis Borges, the most influential writter of the XX Century with Joyce and Kafka didn't
kek

Borges is great by the standards of Argentina, because pretty much everything from there is shit, but he is not worthy of even cleaning Kafka's shoes.

Borges was hardly influential outside L.A, in fact, all of his work has nothing remotely original, since it is instead an application of the things new literary movements in Europe were doing at the time. He was innovative by L.A standards, but he didn't change literature in any way.
In terms of influence in general literature, Borges is subpar compared to most Nobel prize winners.

>>7597219
WEW LAD
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>>7597193
>being this ill-informed

>>7594018
y'know I'm fine with this winning it.

>>7592049
>winners are always great in some way
So you thing Toni Morrison deserved her Nobel prize?

>>7598808
The bluest eye is a killer book.

>>7599932
I've got it at home but haven't read it. I have read Beloved, which was good, except she seemed to try to hard at emulating some of Faulkner's techniques.