widthDoes he know “Au bord de l’eau”? Even in France, the poem about the eternal mood of two lovers on the riverbank published in 1875 is hardly known to anyone. It’s just its author Sully Prudhomme. Not surprisingly, most poems come and go. Even most lyricists. But Prudhomme’s main sentimental verse was once maliciously called a crochet tablecloth poem, but he is more than just a poet. He is the first person to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
When the Swedish Academy was established in 1901, many years later Alfred Nobel The will of 1885 finally began to award prizes, so she did not choose or even nominated Tolstoy, no Emile Zola or Provencal lyric poet Frederic Mistral, and no Marvida. Von Messenburger, they are all among the nominees, but they are just an enthusiastic French poet, and no one knows soon.
A three-day conference has just been held at the German Literature Archives in Marbach, focusing on research Nobel Prize, Its history and its influence. At first glance, it seems that some special topics will lead to the second core problem in literary sociology. Because the Nobel Prize has established itself as a world event. It is higher than the tens of thousands of literary awards awarded every year. There are bets, groans and arguments. Some people believe he will build a cannon, others see him as the result of some kind of annual world championship.
Sustainability of the highest literary honor
Obviously, how absurd this idea is. Literature is not a sport, it does not contain any achievements that can be clearly determined. Anders Olsson, a member of the Swedish Academy, also had no doubt at the Marbach conference held on digitalization that the Nobel Prize winners did not stand out from the competition. There is no long or short list, no ranking. Fabian Acominotti (Madison) claimed that the price was borne by faith in the hierarchy, which he did not expect in this regard.No one would think Peter Handker Simply and obviously become a better writer than William Wallman or Anne Enox.
But what is the Nobel Prize? It was nominated, and according to Olsen, made very ridiculous suggestions and compared the remaining two hundred names. The committee meets every week. For a long time it only chooses from submitted proposals, but now it can make some of its own. Former winners, members of other colleges, and literary studies professors are also eligible to submit. Generally, this award can only be won by someone who has been nominated at least once before. In 1938, a small accident happened to Seidensrick Pearl S. Buck. She was honored for her good-natured Chinese country life novel. She did not have such qualifications and was later regarded as an unfortunate choice.
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On the other hand, Jacob Habinek (Linköping) calculated based on available college documents that the highest position in terms of nomination does not guarantee the price. Anders Olsen mentioned in this regard that James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Joseph Conrad were not even nominated. Therefore, the regret that comes with it comes with a price that only the living author can get.Poet and publisher of many Nobel Prize winners Michael Kruger In his conversation with Olsen, he rightly called for research on the sustainability of the highest literary honor. In other words: in the end, it does not determine the canon that is still widely read, it only increases the chance of being accepted. The Nobel Prize does not prevent being forgotten: who is still reading Carl Spitler today, let alone Paul Hayes?
