I had not heard of him before your comment but looked him up and he looks intriguing. A few viewers have suggested a series on best writers NOT to win a Nobel Prize. He could be one for that list, what do you think?
@@theburningarchive once I started reading Konstantin Paustovsky’s biography “Story of a Life”, I finished it in one breath! I have never been able to understand why Henryk Sienkiewicz received the Nobel Prize in Literature instead of Leo Tolstoy. In my opinion, Sienkiewicz cannot possibly match such a writer as Tolstoy. I also thought it strange that Jorge Luis Borges never got the prize.
This was an interesting period for the Nobel, and I found out that when Steinbeck was asked whom he thought would be the next US laureate, he picked Saul Bellow (1976 winner)! Oh, and Sartre's fiction and plays are terrible. No one will miss this part of his career.
A brillliant addition to the splendid Substack essay. It's such fun to see archival film of the winners discussed fully in your essay.
thank you
It all reminds me of of mice and men.
Doc, from Steinbeck’s Cannery Row: ‘Truth can be a very dangerous mistress’ 👍
so true. thanks 🙏
I would have preferred that Konstantin Paustovsky had won the Nobel Prize in Literature in stead of Mikhail Sholokhov.
I had not heard of him before your comment but looked him up and he looks intriguing. A few viewers have suggested a series on best writers NOT to win a Nobel Prize. He could be one for that list, what do you think?
@@theburningarchive once I started reading Konstantin Paustovsky’s biography “Story of a Life”, I finished it in one breath! I have never been able to understand why Henryk Sienkiewicz received the Nobel Prize in Literature instead of Leo Tolstoy. In my opinion, Sienkiewicz cannot possibly match such a writer as Tolstoy. I also thought it strange that Jorge Luis Borges never got the prize.
Nobel Prizes are not about merit so much as politics. Mass m@rderers got them. Nobel prizes mean nothing apart from the cash you get
I would have preferred (add any decent author of the time) had won the Nobel Prize in Literature instead of Mikhail Sholokov.
@@gerardterveer9026 According to the Nobel committee, Tolstoy practiced 'theoretical anarchy' (or some such nonsense critique). Still shameful!
This was an interesting period for the Nobel, and I found out that when Steinbeck was asked whom he thought would be the next US laureate, he picked Saul Bellow (1976 winner)!
Oh, and Sartre's fiction and plays are terrible. No one will miss this part of his career.
Indeed. Bellow is coming up in 2 weeks, and Samuel Beckett next week!