Dylan wins Nobel Prize in Literature


Awesome.   Best news I've read in a while.
128x128mapman
Everyone who feels their judgment is superior to the members of the Nobel committee, stop being so selfish and apply for the job. It's not right to keep all that wisdom to yourself; share it with the world.
@bdp24 That's a logical fallacy. My saying that Dylan is less deserving than other authors is not the same as my saying my judgment is superior to the Nobel committee's. Besides, there is no committee or cabal anywhere that's impervious to second guessing or to flawed reasoning.

One one level, I'm disagreeing with the Nobel committee for its choosing of an author who used the medium of music as a channel for his poetry - something no other Nobel authors have done.

On another level, as a literature professor, I feel safe in saying that the literary merit of the authors I mentioned, as well as their influence on literature throughout their career, far surpasses what Dylan has done.
simao
That's a logical fallacy. My saying that Dylan is less deserving than other authors is not the same as my saying my judgment is superior to the Nobel committee's ...
On another level, as a literature professor, I feel safe in saying that the literary merit of the authors I mentioned, as well as their influence on literature throughout their career, far surpasses what Dylan has done.
You just committed another logical fallacy: Call to Authority.
 
Actually the more I think about it Dylan is probably more deserving of the Nobel prose than he was of the Pulitzer Prize.

tootles

I'll be the first to admit that I'm not well-versed in either prose or poetry.  But I have noticed that Salman Rushdie and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, among others, are pretty pleased that Dylan was chosen.  But I'm sure Simao knows better...