the name of Africa / humanity – it's politics & Africanisation –
always ( Africa with a cee – in more extreme cases , with a kay)
http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/corneliushamelberg/2012/03/27/re-tt-tomas-transtromer-continued/
On Mar 26, 7:55 pm, Amatoritsero Ede <esula...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Also Cornelius,
>
> 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 <corneliushamelb...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
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> > The beginning of a convesration which places AE centre stage :
>
> >http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/corneliushamelberg/2012/03/26/a-short-re...
>
> > 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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