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Re: Tilting at Victory, 'Quixote' Tops Authors' Poll (fwd)
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From: Will Schultz <willtato@pacbell.net>
After reading the list of all 100 submissions,
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,711520,00.html
I must amplify my previous comment. Thank - you, Rodney, for the source
and for pointing out that some of VN's favorites did, thank goodness, find
their way onto the list. But upon examination, I find even more reason the
master would harrumph, and perhaps also guffaw and even puke. In addition
to Dostoevski and Cervantes, there are several more he loved to ridicule
(to the great consternation of many of his university colleagues)
Camus, Conrad, Hemingway, Tomas Mann, Orwell
I think we can also conclude that many on the list might be considered
at best "teachers" but not "enchanters", to use his own terminology (eg:
Achebe, Faulkner, Garcia Marquez, Gunter Grass )
And then, why only Lolita ? Pale Fire, The Gift, Pnin get no respect
here ?
After reading the list of all 100 submissions,
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,711520,00.html
I must amplify my previous comment. Thank - you, Rodney, for the source
and for pointing out that some of VN's favorites did, thank goodness, find
their way onto the list. But upon examination, I find even more reason the
master would harrumph, and perhaps also guffaw and even puke. In addition
to Dostoevski and Cervantes, there are several more he loved to ridicule
(to the great consternation of many of his university colleagues)
Camus, Conrad, Hemingway, Tomas Mann, Orwell
I think we can also conclude that many on the list might be considered
at best "teachers" but not "enchanters", to use his own terminology (eg:
Achebe, Faulkner, Garcia Marquez, Gunter Grass )
And then, why only Lolita ? Pale Fire, The Gift, Pnin get no respect
here ?