Nobel Prize

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>>8576425
Overrated. Like Japanese films, it LOOKS like a novel but there's really no content. It's pure imitation of American or European models without anything inside, like a replicant out of Philip K Dick.

>>8576443
>le japanese have no soul meme

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>>8576454
Who's vivisecting whom, again?

I unironically enjoy his books

Who does /lit/ actually think will win it?

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>>8576668

>>8576443
Who is Kurosawa

>>8576425
In a world where Alice Munro has got one it doesn't seem too far fetched that Murakami should get one too. Only one tiny problem, he's neither a woman nor black and his work can't really be politicized, though lucky Haruki

>>8576765
>Alice Munro
Care to explain a little about her.It just happens to be the chick i am currently seeing is dropping her name at every chance she gets.

>>8576782
She writes short stories where nothing happens in simple prose.

>>8576782
Female Canadian short story writer, has a couple of collections published, got a nobel prize in literature (why?), writes in a colloquial voice but her prose is not that good (it can be done well, e.g. Raymond Carver).

Her being super easy to read and most of her stories having a female (first person) narrator make her an excellent choice as a lecture for chicks (chicks with mighty high pseud potential that is)

>>8576443
Too me, this does describe Norweigan Wood. I really liked it, but there wasn't much too it.

>>8576668
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o has the second lowest odds at the betting companies and is a real candidate unlike memeakami.
>>8576765
>>8576815
Bloom says she's very good.

>implying a french author won't sweep the Nobel again

>>8576745
Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Kobayashi are pretty based. Ozu idk, his shit often feels like a bunch of vaguely animated paintings stitiched together.

>>8578441
Only two French writers won it in the last thirty years.

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>>8576425
NOT SO FAST THERE OP

*teleports behind you*

>>8576812
>>8576815
That shouldn't be surprising given the current state of affairs in literature but it seems kind of strange that even some people here gush over her.

>>8576765
misogynist detected

>>8578876
based Karl

is the best greatest author currently alive? What will he do next?

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>>8576425
>>8578876
You just wait...

>>8576443
Oh shit someone on /lit/ criticized Murakami, everyone look out for this free thinker here

>>8576425
>implying it won't go to hillary for no reason if she wins
Remember to vote Trump, folks if you want to preserve the integrity of the Nobel Prize.

>>8577585
>too
>too

>>8576425
this man, in my country, he is a man

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This guy is going to win

Banville, Lobos Antunes, and Yevtushenko just had big jumps in the odds. Might be something there.

I doubt Murakami ever wins it.

>>8576425
narrator: i like whisky, play violin, speaks german, want to learn latin, love movies from the 30's. every. fucking. time.

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>>8576443
>Like Japanese films
>It's pure imitation of American or European models
And yet the best filmmaker from Japan is so distinctly Japanese and non-western that it was assumed for years there was no audience for his films in the west. I can't tell if this is bait or if you have no idea what you are talking about.
Murakami is garbage though. I couldn't even finish Norwegian Wood or Kafka on the Shore they were so bad. (Other Japanese authors, like Soseki, Abe or Dazai are terrific though.)

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>>8581884
Forgot to mention Akutagawa as well. His short stories are great. Also, as far as modern Japanese filmmakers go, Takeshi Kitano is very good and very Japanese.

When do you reckon it's going to be announced? They still haven't announced a date for it, but they have for every other nobel.

>>8582067
I was guessing thursday but it seems a bit close now.

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Murakami is a hack, only true choice is pic related.

>>8582067
it's always announced on an october thursday, they say which on the monday before. so 13th at earliest, possibly 20th or even 27th.

>>8582096
too young, and even though he deserves it he's already had a lot of awards recognition and the nobel committee likes to spread things around.

it's not going to be a euro or anglo this year either

>>8582096
He has only very recently gotten translated to Swedish. Probably gonna take a while.

>>8582110
Remember who won in 2014? Modiano's books had barely been translated to English, let alone Swedish before he won the Nobel.

>>8582067
? it's oct 13th. been announced for a while.

I would hope Gene Wolfe, but it isn't happening.

>>8582487
Yes, but swedish literati can still read french, whereas there is little reason for them to know hungarian

>>8582501
My study break ends in 15 minutes.

>>8582492
tanks for info
nobelprize.org still says that it's not set

I would be suprised if Roth win.

>>8579144
he's already published the first of a quartet, one corresponding to each season. all he does is describe things like tables and shit. I'm not kidding, look it up. no english translation yet tho.

>>8576443
>Japanese films
>no content
LOL

>ask me how I know you don't know anything

i like murakami

>>8576425
it will never be yours.

>>8576443
E for effort

>>8580798
When will reddit leave?