2024-10-20 04:37:00
Napoleon said that luck is the remnant of organization, which is very similar to the adage “the more you write, the easier it is for inspiration to appear.” Organization, also known as planning, is closely connected with practice, that is, exercise and training. A man who never takes risks has a hard time letting his luck – or bad luck – show up. Napoleon also said that he was able to conquer Europe because he was a great general, but also because he was lucky. South Korea Han Kang is undoubtedly very lucky. Or he did this time. I have only read one of her books, The Vegetarian, and I have no desire to continue reading her. Her literature is extremely normal – and I say “normal” as the opposite of “exceptional” – I mean, she is a writer of thousands: a bit eccentric, verbose… and without a doubt, a member of the Swedish Academy The criteria are so greatly expanded that any writer can win a Nobel Prize. César Aira’s candidacy went from a joke to a real possibility: If Han Kang wins, he can win, too. He and many other writers had few virtues other than writing. The Swedish Academy is not interested in figures who have become totems such as Thomas Pynchon, Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood or Joyce Carol Oates. On the contrary, it doesn’t seem bad to me: the field of possible candidates keeps expanding to the point where anyone with a passable job can win it. If you’re lucky.
Swedish grandiosity leads us to believe that Academy decisions are made by a dozen people in platinum robes and wigs sitting around a birch table, and that they are probably made in a bar over a few liters of wine. Or aquavit, we don’t know. To be sure, they were not consensus decisions because the same person could not have agreed to award the Nobel Prize to Peter Handke one year later and Han Kang five years later.
I think that every year the decision is made by a different member of the Swedish Academy’s ten members in a very similar way to how we make decisions irresponsibly, that is, when the funds involved are not ours: “Last year you chose “It’s my turn,” or something like that. No explanation otherwise.
Dictators don’t like this
The practice of professional and critical journalism is a fundamental pillar of democracy. That’s why it bothers those who think they have the truth.
At the same time, this irresponsible attitude is also good for us: we Argentines have a group of writers who are as good as Han Kang, or even better. It’s not that I’m particularly interested in the Argentine winning, but if it was my friend maybe I could take advantage of it. On the other hand, I don’t think it does any good for a Korean author to win: her books have already been translated, and they probably translated more, maybe all of them. I’m not going to read them.
Yet we feel a morbid happiness in seeing the expectation that someone we’ve read about win come true. For some reason, we’re delighted to learn about the winner’s work, as if even the bare minimum of this prestige falls on us. There are some of them. When Andy Summer kicked a police officer in the head on stage at Obras in December 1980, those who were there, those who actually witnessed it, Enjoy a certain prestige. Otherwise, no one would claim to have been there. The same may be true of the Nobel Prize, as if we see the author kicking fate, and we who read it also enter fate. have no idea.
Now that the standard of the Nobel Prize in Literature has reached pedestal level in our homes, it’s time for some Argentine to win it.
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