my little quip on Transtroemer has noting to do with the poet himself so much as with the politicization of the prize which has gone on for a long long time: Take a look at this other essay:
How (Alfred) Noble is the Nobel Prize at <http://mtls.ca/issue8/editorial.php>
In a café at the heart of the Latin Quarter in Paris one afternoon in October of 1964, Jean Paul Sartre, that doyen of twentieth century French intellectual life, sat down to his usual aperitif when he saw his own face staring back at him from the pages of Le Figaro. The disappointment was so numbing that the drink slipped from grip halfway to his lips. The shattering of glass on polished wooden floor blended with the clash of the jazz drums that was playing in the background. The baguette-munching, tea-sipping clientele moved as one body with the slightest and the most polite turn in sympathy with the usually serene head now shaking from side to side in mock shock at the newspaper. Such was the weight he felt that the café itself seemed to turn slightly on its waist with the drag of his body as he read the newspaper. Sartre had just won the Nobel Prize for literature.
see the rest: http://mtls.ca/issue8/editorial.php
Amatoritsero
On 26 March 2012 10:19, Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelberg@gmail.com> wrote:
The beginning of a convesration which places AE centre stage :
http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/corneliushamelberg/2012/03/26/a-short-rejoinder-to-some-negative-pontifications-about-our-tomas-trasnstromer/
On Mar 18, 9:41 pm, Amatoritsero Ede <esula...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I remember walking through the rather sparse poetry section of Chapters
> bookstores downtown recently and stopping for a moment before a Tomas
> Tranströmer collection – probably fresh off the press, rushed out to meet
> the galloping demands attending a Nobel moment. My instinct was to buy a
> copy of the collected works. But I demurred.
>
> You can access the rest here:http://mtls.ca/issue11/editorial
>
> Amatoritsero
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