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Nobel lectures : from the literature laureates, 1986 to 2006.

Title
Nobel lectures : from the literature laureates, 1986 to 2006.
Publication
New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2007.

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Description
ix, 293 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Subject
  • Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Literature, Modern > 21st century > History and criticism
  • Literature > Philosophy
  • Nobel Prizes
Note
  • Originally published: Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 2006.
Contents
My father's suitcase / Orhan Pamuk -- Art, truth and politics / Harold Pinter -- Sidelined / Elfriede Jelinek -- He and his man / J.M. Coetzee -- Heureka! / Imre Kertész -- Two worlds / V.S. Naipaul -- The case for literature / Gao Xingjian -- To be continued ... / Günter Grass -- How characters became the masters and the author their apprentice / José Saramago -- Contra jogulatores obloquentes (Against jesters who defame and insult) / Dario Fo -- The poet and the world / Wislawa Szymborska -- Crediting poetry / Seamus Heaney -- Japan, the ambiguous, and myself / Kenzaburo Oe -- The bird is in your hands / Toni Morrison -- The Antilles: fragments of epic memory / Derek Walcott -- Writing and being / Nadine Gordimer -- In search of the present / Octavio Paz -- Eulogy to the fable / Camilo José Cela -- Mankind's coming of age / Naguib Mahfouz -- Aesthetics and language / Joseph Brodsky -- This past must address its present / Wole Soyinka -- Laureates, 1901 to 2006.
Call Number
JFD 08-966
ISBN
  • 9781595582010 (hbk.)
  • 1595582010 (hbk.)
LCCN
2007017328
OCLC
123818318
Title
Nobel lectures : from the literature laureates, 1986 to 2006.
Imprint
New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2007.
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