Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Great Regulars: But the real scandal of [Horace] Engdahl's comments

is not that they revealed a secret bias on the part of the Swedish Academy. It is that Engdahl made official what has long been obvious to anyone paying attention: The Nobel committee has no clue about American literature. America should respond not by imploring the committee for a fairer hearing but by seceding, once and for all, from the sham that the Nobel Prize for literature has become.

from Adam Kirsch: Slate: Nobel Gas

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