Bob Dylan awarded Nobel Prize in literature !

[sukumvit boy]

i don't think bob dylan gives a shit about a nobel prize

You are obviously correct , the Nobel Committee reports that they still have not been able to track him down !

[Stavros]

You are obviously correct , the Nobel Committee reports that they still have not been able to track him down !

And now they claim Mr Dylan is 'impolite and arrogant' -or maybe someone should tell them they really are not important; and maybe Dylan is even entitled to his own opinion and is free to contact them if he wants to?
https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...academy-member

[martin48]

"They stone yer when yer won't pick up yer prize"

[Stavros]

"They stone yer when yer won't pick up yer prize"

Let's just hope given the times we live in that being stoned is what Dylan meant it to be..

[sukumvit boy]

I understand that even if he ignores the committee and / or does not go to Stockholm ,the prize is still his and cannot be changed.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/new...s-nobel-prize/

[Stavros]

But what happens to the gong and the cash? But it is true, and Jean-Paul Sartre is still listed as a Nobel Prize laureate even though he rejected it.

[martin48]

End of story

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-f...ze-ceremony-i/

[Stavros]

End of story

Not surprised that Dylan treats with hesitation this risible nonsense quoted from your link-

Sara Danius, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, for example, has linked Dylan’s contribution to literature with the writers of ancient Greece. “If you look back, far back, 2,500 years or so,” she has said, “you discover Homer and Sappho, and they wrote poetic texts that were meant to be listened to, they were meant to be performed, often together with instruments, and it’s the same way with Bob Dylan.

-The oral poetry tradition apart from whatever social function it performed, was a necessity in an age when writing was not common and reading even less so. Indeed most of the 'historic texts' of religion and literature are reconstructions of something that was said, and use story-telling, metaphor and repetition precisely to create a memory. In The Iliad again and again we are referred to 'Menelaus of the loud war-cry', 'Man-slaying Achilles' and so forth, because like motifs in music, these were necessary devices that orators used to remind their audience who was being spoken of. This is a world away and a civilisation away from the songs of Bob Dylan.

[sukumvit boy]

Here's an update. Dylan accepts prize but skips ceremonies , may perform next year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/10/ar...nies.html?_r=0

[Budweiser]

LOL!

The New York Times primly notes that the academy is famous for “its at times almost willful perversity in picking winners.” Scottish novelist Irvine Welsh (“Trainspotting”) professes himself “a Dylan fan” but tweeted that this Nobel is “an ill conceived nostalgia award wrenched from the rancid prostates of senile, gibbering hippies.” Strong letter to follow.

One critic says that the more than 150 books on Dylan are “a library woozy with humid overstatement and baby boomer mythology.” A sample of the humidity is: “Dylan seemed less to occupy a turning point in cultural space and time than to be that turning point.” But Dylan should not be blamed for the hyperventilating caused by DSD — Dylan Derangement Syndrome. Besides, Dylan has collected a Pulitzer Prize for “lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power,” so there.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...cbe_story.html