Doris Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy announced this morning, “that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny.”
Lessing was born in what was then part of Persia, and now lives in England.
So, I suppose there’s little chance she was educated in U.S. public schools . . .
The Nobel Peace Prize should be announced tomorrow, and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics is scheduled for Monday.
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From the International Herald Tribune :
> “This is pure political correctness,” American literary critic Harold Bloom,
> commenting on Lessing’s Nobel, told The Associated Press. “Although Ms.
> Lessing at the beginning of her writing career had a few admirable qualities,
> I find her work for the past 15 years quite unreadable … fourth-rate
> science fiction.”
At this point, is there any doubt that Harold Bloom has become both irrelevant and a colossal asshole?
Why the media continues to quote this anachronistic blowhard is beyond me.
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