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Last week Horace Engdahl, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, spoke out about the U.S.'s place in world literary culture. "The U.S. is too isolated, too insular," he said. "They don't translate enough and don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature. That ignorance is restraining." His remarks may have been a reference to the fact that the works of Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, who today was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature, are almost entirely out of print in the U.S. In its characteristically florid prose, the Nobel citation describes...
...isolated, too insular. They don't translate enough and don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature.' HORACE ENGDAHL, member of the Nobel Literature award jury, criticizing American writers for being "too sensitive to trends in their own mass culture...
...senior member of the Swedish Academy—the body that bestows the Nobel Prize—that American literature is too self-absorbed might throw cold water on the hopes that an American author will bring home the prize. In an interview with the Associated Press, Horace Engdahl called the United States “too isolated, too insular.” “They don’t translate enough and don’t really participate in the big dialogue of literature,” Engdahl said. “The ignorance is restraining...
...believe that we are struggling to preserve our traditional values of justice, peace, and humanity against the advocates of conformity and the supremacy of force. For us, and for those who share in other aspects of this same struggle, let Kent be the memorial of our resistance. David E. Engdahl Associate Professor University of Colorado School...
...graduate of a Jesuit institution like the College of Holy Cross, I should be interested to learn how the two young men (Mr. George E. Engdahl Jr. and Mr. Robert M. Conway) have fared since they dared to write -and have published -a letter [Dec. 2] correctly stating that the stand of the Roman Catholic Church is "narrow-minded, archaic," etc., rebirth control. Their correct appraisal is equaled only by their outright courage -for I can recall the day when to voice, much less to publish, a critique of the church, by a student within one of its institutions...