Swedish Academy Won’t Award Nobel Prize in Literature This Year

Re:Swedish Academy Won’t Award Nobel Prize in Literature Thi... by Mediterraneo10 on Friday May 04, 2018 @09:02AM (#16994234)

I have recently gone back through Kubrick’s entire filmography from Paths of Glory on, the first time I had seen many of these films since I was a teenager. It was... underwhelming. I am now able to sympathize with Kubrick critics.

With regard to Borges, he shares the same problem in terms of female characters as Cormac McCarthy as mentioned above. Plus, there is a real lack of emotional depth to Borges’ work. His themes may interest anoraks like ourselves, but I don’t think he is a truly universal figure.

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Re:Swedish Academy Won’t Award Nobel Prize in Literature Thi... by paganel on Friday May 04, 2018 @12:31PM (#16995852)

IMHO "Barry Lyndon" is one of the best movies ever-made, and I say that as a cinephile who also thinks that Kubrick is slightly (but just slightly) over-rated.

A literature prize like the Nobel is by definition a thing targeted towards literature buffs, and Borges is a god among gods for those kind of people (of which I'm a part of), with or without female characters (come to think of it, I can't remember that many male characters in his books either).

Anyway, I stopped taking the Nobel literature prizes all that seriously the moment when I realized that they hadn't given it to Proust (his duchesse de Guermantes is one of the most important female characters in the history of literature) and Kafka.

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Re:Swedish Academy Won’t Award Nobel Prize in Literature Thi... by briandear on Friday May 04, 2018 @10:31AM (#16994829)

Timeliness is what made Kubrick “great” — the social commentary aspect of his films. As far as directing quality, I am simply whelmed rather than over or underwhelmed.

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