Thursday, October 11, 2007

Waning Roth

Philip Roth loses again. The Nobel goes to....Doris Lessing?

I like what crotchety critic Harold Bloom has to say: "pure political correctness....I find her work for the past 15 years quite unreadable ... fourth-rate science fiction."

The Literature Prize is becoming as big a joke as the Peace Prize.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

A lot of accomplished people have a period of 15 years or more at the end of their careers that are not as stellar as what came before -- especially if they live into their '80's as Doris Lessing has. The prize is meant to reward the entire career. Even Harold Bloom recognized that her earlier work was important.

9:58 PM, October 11, 2007  

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