... “I know I am traveling all the time”: The Twilight Dreams of Artur Lundquist. (Hat tip, Hedgie.)
I believe that Lundkvist was the fellow on the Swedish Academy who kept both Graham Greene and Henry Miller from winning the Nobel prize for literature.
If true, that is very silly in the case of Graham Greene, a marvellous author (I have read every one of his novels and stories, and quite a chunk of his non-fiction). Henry Miller, on the other hand - read one, and that was enough for me. I find this "Nobel prize for literature" type of thing a bit silly, as it is all subjective. But Graham Greene - I hope we all agree on him.
ReplyDeleteWell, I certainly agree on Greene. A great writer, period. Miller is a mixed bag. His best book - The Colossus of Maroussi - is hardly known to anyone, and one of his worst - Tropic of Cancer - is his best known. (Tropic of Capricorn, on the other hand, is great.)
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