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RSS Feeds`Ghost poetry`: fight over Samuel Beckett`s Nobel win revealed in archives
(The Guardian Books News)

 
 

17 january 2020 07:47:25

 
`Ghost poetry`: fight over Samuel Beckett`s Nobel win revealed in archives
(The Guardian Books News)
 


Papers revealing the Swedish Academy´s deliberations over the Waiting for Godot author reveal fierce disputes over his `nihilism´Fifty years after Samuel Beckett won the Nobel prize for literature, newly opened archives reveal the serious doubts the committee had over giving the award to an author they felt held a `bottomless contempt for the human condition`.Announcing that the Waiting for Godot author had won the laureateship in 1969, the Swedish Academy praised `his writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation`. Continue reading...


 
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