Bob Dylan, 75, has just been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Born Robert Allen Zimmerman in 1941, Dylan started his musical career in 1959 in Minnesota cafés. He received the prize "for having created
new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".
MY PERSONAL OPINION : In the arena of literature, I’m a right-wing conservative. From now on, there’ll be Nobel Literature winners before Dylan, and those after him. The time-honored system of Literature awards has been turned upside-down by this choice of Bob Dylan. I fear that it will be impossible to return to the pre-Dylan epoch, and I think it’s a terrible pity. No matter how much I adore the songs of Bob Dylan, I regret immensely the brutal destruction of an old-fashioned award for writers… or, if you prefer, an award for old-fashioned writers. Dylan is so widely loved throughout the world that there was no need whatsoever to elevate him to the role of a destroyer of the old literary-award tradition. Is Bob Dylan happy to find himself in the same palatial gallery as the world’s great authors?
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