There aren’t any great novelists writing in English anymore winning big prizes. There are some great novels but the titans of letters are all gone.
obert-wan-kenobert on
>Szalay’s victory will receive many plaudits, and probably launch a thousand columns in praise of literary masculinity.
>Several of my friends and colleagues adored the book, and I’d wager that many commentators will follow suit.
>They are all wrong.
So basically his argument is, “Everyone loved this book except for me. But since my view is the only objectively correct one, it shouldn’t have won the Booker Prize.”
eatenbycthulhu on
What a crap article. Really comes across as somewhere between “Old man yells at clouds” and “I didn’t like this book, so the booker prize is wrong.”
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There aren’t any great novelists writing in English anymore winning big prizes. There are some great novels but the titans of letters are all gone.
>Szalay’s victory will receive many plaudits, and probably launch a thousand columns in praise of literary masculinity.
>Several of my friends and colleagues adored the book, and I’d wager that many commentators will follow suit.
>They are all wrong.
So basically his argument is, “Everyone loved this book except for me. But since my view is the only objectively correct one, it shouldn’t have won the Booker Prize.”
What a crap article. Really comes across as somewhere between “Old man yells at clouds” and “I didn’t like this book, so the booker prize is wrong.”
Don’t listen to the fucking Telegraph. Jesus.