Nobel Judge says Americans caint write no good

**Strike For The South** · 10-01-2008, 22:37

Originally Posted by Kadagar_AV

Fragony, I've been to the US two times:)

I now it is huge... But that does not explain why "the end of the world" and "the end of the US" is the same thing in much of the literature.

Don Corleone, first of all, the cultural difference is huge within Europa... I am not saying you dont have cultural difference in US too, heck, I have been to New York and then Mississippi... Still, there was the same language, same food chains, same TV-shows and so on...

Geographical distance and cultural distance is not the same thing... you know...

And as a sidenote, who said European literature is bound to Europe only? Africa, Asia and so on hasa huge impact on our literature.

There is a huge difference in the culture of the 2 cities Ive lived in and there in the same state! I even made a thread about it!

**yesdachi** · 10-01-2008, 22:41

Originally Posted by Strike For The South

There is a huge difference in the culture of the 2 cities Ive lived in and there in the same state! I even made a thread about it!

But that was based on food and not literature.

**Strike For The South** · 10-01-2008, 22:43

Originally Posted by yesdachi

But that was based on food and not literature.

Good sir at the end of the day is there a difference?

**Louis VI the Fat** · 10-01-2008, 22:50

Originally Posted by yesdachi

But that was based on food and not literature.

Originally Posted by Strike For The South

Good sir at the end of the day is there a difference?

My padawan has completed his education.

I can teach him no more.

I shall now leave this forum and die a happy man.

**Strike For The South** · 10-02-2008, 02:34

Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat

My padawan has completed his education.

I can teach him no more.

I shall now leave this forum and die a happy man.

A montage to SFTS and Louie

**Tribesman** · 10-02-2008, 09:19

it takes me 2 hours to travel from the south of the netherlands to the north, how can you compare that?

Well for comparison everyone is moaning that the new road "improvements" mean that it can take 2 hours to drive from Tuam to Galway , but hey thats Ireland and we don't do much of that literature thing in a Nobel sense

**Koga No Goshi** · 10-02-2008, 09:21

Originally Posted by Tribesman

Well for comparison everyone is moaning that the new road "improvements" mean that it can take 2 hours to drive from Tuam to Galway , but hey thats Ireland and we don't do much of that literature thing in a Nobel sense

But you gave us a ripped off version of Dracula that changed the world. :)

**Louis VI the Fat** · 10-09-2008, 13:07

France wins Again!

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio: author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization.

French sophistication and refinement beats American pulp again!

I take back everything I said about the Nobel comittee in this thread and I applaud them for their literary insight and as your literary overlords we promise to rule firm but just and blahblah.

**InsaneApache** · 10-09-2008, 13:33

He looks as though he sat on something wet and warm.

**KukriKhan** · 10-09-2008, 13:51

He has astoundingly dark hair for a 68-year old. It must be that French diet. :)

I read he did a short stint in the US as a teacher in the 60's. I wonder where?

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LOL, Louis

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Found it here

Le procès-verbal was soon translated into several languages, among others into Finnish. In spite of his international fame, Le Clézio chose to stay away from fashionable literary circles, saying in an article in 1965: "Not yet sure if writing is a good way of expression." He taught at a Buddhist University in Thailand in 1966-67, at the University of Mexico, and at the Boston University, University of Texas, Austin, and the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Since 1973 Le Clézio has divided his life between France, the U.S. and Mauritius. He has also traveled in Nigeria and Japan and published translations of Mayan sacred texts.

Is UT-Austin where our STFS attends? If so, the irony literally drips.