How to Win the Nobel Prize in Literature
Title | How to Win the Nobel Prize in Literature PDF eBook |
Author | David Carter |
Publisher | Hesperus Press |
Total Pages | 170 |
Release | 2013-03-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1780940408 |
With humor, wit, and insight, David Carter sets out a number of fail-safe rules to follow in order to win the Nobel Prize in literatureThere are acclaimed writers— James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Tolstoy, Mark Twain— who never won the Nobel Prize, and others, less well known, such as Henryk Sienkiewicz, Paul Heyse, and Romain Rolland, who did. What exactly does one have to do to impress, or be snubbed by, the Nobel Committee? This book is a fascinating survey of the Nobel Prize for literature, constructed as a tongue-in-cheek series of rules. "Be a man" is one of them, and "Make sure your best work has been translated into Swedish" another. Presenting biographical information as well as extracts from their work, David Carter will try to answer a number of questions about the prize, such as What are the outstanding qualities of the winners' works? Were there any unusual circumstances attending the award? and Who else was considered and rejected and why?
The Nobel Prize
Title | The Nobel Prize PDF eBook |
Author | Burton Feldman |
Publisher | Arcade Publishing |
Total Pages | 520 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781559705929 |
Discusses the Nobel Institution in detail, telling about the award and its beginnings, what it means to win a Nobel Prize, the fields in which it is presented, who judges and how the prize is awarded, and more.
The Nobel Prize in Literature
Title | The Nobel Prize in Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Kjell Espmark |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 2020
Title | The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 2020 PDF eBook |
Author | Louise Glück |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | 14 |
Release | 2020-12-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0374604363 |
The complete acceptance speech of Louise Glück, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel Prize committee selected poet and author Louise Glück "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal." Here is the full text of her Nobel Lecture given on December 7, 2020.
Literature, 1901-1967
Title | Literature, 1901-1967 PDF eBook |
Author | Horst Frenz |
Publisher | World Scientific |
Total Pages | 670 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9789810234133 |
http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/3738
Nobel Lectures
Title | Nobel Lectures PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | The New Press |
Total Pages | 306 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1595584099 |
This is a collection in which meditations on imagination and the process of writing mingle with keen discussions of global affairs, geography and colonialism, cultural change, and the deeply lasting influences of the past.
The Buried Giant
Title | The Buried Giant PDF eBook |
Author | Kazuo Ishiguro |
Publisher | Vintage |
Total Pages | 283 |
Release | 2015-03-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0385353227 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory. In post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons and the Britons have finally ceased. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly British couple, set off to visit their son, whom they haven't seen in years. And, because a strange mist has caused mass amnesia throughout the land, they can scarcely remember anything about him. As they are joined on their journey by a Saxon warrior, his orphan charge, and an illustrious knight, Axl and Beatrice slowly begin to remember the dark and troubled past they all share. By turns savage, suspenseful, and intensely moving, The Buried Giant is a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory.