>Once again the humorless Swedes have chosen a writer of migraines for the Nobel Prize in literature, an author of twilight meditations on time and memory and mortality and cold toast by loners looking at bad wallpaper. It's not a prize for literature, it's a prize for nihilism. The Swedes said he's like Jane Austen combined with Kafka with some of Proust, three other writers you'd never invite to a party.
>All the Swedes with a sense of humor came to America and so what the Nobel judges recognize is bleak, cramped, emotionally stunted, enigmatic, pretentious. Millions of people around the world understand the concept of reading books for pleasure but the Swedes think of it as a form of colonoscopy. If they gave a Nobel Prize for food, they'd give it to quinoa.
>I say, let the Swedes give the prize for urban planning. Let the Jews give the Nobel Prize. They know from literature. Compare a list of great Jewish writers and a list of great Swedish writers. I rest my case.
Nobel prize for literature? More like, Nobel prize for SHITerature ahahahahaha
Ryan Sanchez
Hahaha yes man goof and gags are the pinnacle of literature, who cares about reality and shiet, based jews can make blood libel seem funny and cool.
Anthony Murphy
Ha thanks i had a laugh
Owen Perez
It's her turn. Fucking humourless swedes.
Logan Thomas
Is this real? If so: HAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA WHAT A FUCKING PLEB
Owen Anderson
I can't actually tell whether it's an ironical piece, a brilliant bait or a try out of some new American superweapon designed to kill through sheer power of retardation.
Adrian Richardson
>he wouldn't have a cheeky banter with Jane at the party followed by a discrete cunnilingus in the bathroom american "humorists," everyone
Samuel Williams
Who the fuck wouldn't like to party with Kafka? And quinoa is good af.
Cameron Young
Keilor. Or should I say (((Keilor)))? I wonder who could be behind (((this)))?
Dominic Edwards
>If they gave a Nobel Prize for food, they'd give it to the most nutritionally valuable cereal in the world that is tested by NASA as primary foodstuff for long-range range space flights. >that would be bad
Blake Jackson
(((Keilor))). I recommend reading The Culture of Critique.
Thomas Rivera
Is Mario really as good as everyone says? How much of his books, if at all, are propaganda?
Anthony Hill
>kafka and austen are humourless but roth is SO FUNNY that boring people would never give him an award because he's simply THAT FUNNY
Ayden Ortiz
Kafka is much funnier than Garrison Keillor
Jeremiah Garcia
Oy vey he's not wrong. What a great ally you are Mr Keillor!
Dylan Wood
>nobel prize should go to writers I want to have a beer with
Jonathan Watson
>you would never invite proust to a party What the fuck, proust was funny as fuck
Hunter Lee
>Jane Austen combined with Kafka with some of Proust, three other writers you'd never invite to a party. Dumbest shit I've read all day, and I'm on Veeky Forums.
Aaron Ross
This man should be the official king of Veeky Forums brainlets.
Ryder Brooks
Too hard to clean the semen off your rats afterwards, is what I believe Keillor is alluding to.
David Thomas
Who?
Gabriel Morris
Hes right about all swedes that went to america lost their souls and then came back to bring sweden to hell with them
Liam Adams
>radio personality my fucking sides
Gabriel Barnes
It really bothers me how he whistles when he says any word that has an s in it. That and the general "oh golly gosh" routine made PHC unbearable.
Nolan Walker
>doesn't know what nihilism is >reading books for pleasure >Jewish supremacy
into the trash it goes
Cameron Brooks
>doesn't know what nihilism is Yes, that was painful to read.
Andrew King
Jane austen would be a riot at a party
Kevin Anderson
this is why no one likes Americans t. American
Christopher Campbell
> Let the Jews give the Nobel Prize. They know from literature. Compare a list of great Jewish writers and a list of great Swedish writers.
But what did he mean by this?
Joshua Green
> Of course all the book critics applauded the choice of Kazuo Ishiguro: Praising the dull and deadly is a time-tested way to demonstrate [pseudo] intellectual superiority.
I'd say this describes Veeky Forums rather well, don't you think?
Daniel Young
Are you implying I have rats in my house???!?
Jaxon Wright
He's salty his friend Roth didn't win.
Aaron Foster
SWEDEN NO
Logan Nguyen
fun fact if you save this image to you're computer you're added to a list on the SPLC's database.
I mean he's right in the narrow sense that Kazuo is shit.
Tyler Jackson
Read The feast of the goat and judge for yourself. What do you mean propaganda? Of what kind?
Aaron Jackson
>alaska dispatch news never heard of this publication before.
>he wouldn't invite proust to a party what a moron.
Adrian Wright
Goyim should not be allowed to write books, or even read them. They should not be allowed to learn how to read and write.
Bentley Richardson
Pretty rich for a German guy who got famous off of "le humorless stoic Swedes and Norwegians" stereotypes.
Jaxon Allen
He has no idea what nihilism is and I guarantee you he hasn't read Austen, Kafka, Proust, or anything much at all. This is one of those times where instead of getting angry, or laughing, I just feel sad.
Michael Young
"A Prairie Home Companion" received a Peabody Award in 1980. Keillor received a Medal for Spoken Language from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1990.[65] In 1994, Keillor was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame.[66] He received a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1999.[65] "Welcome to Minnesota" markers in interstate rest areas near the state's borders include statements such as "Like its neighbors, the thirty-second state grew as a collection of small farm communities, many settled by immigrants from Scandinavia and Germany. Two of the nation's favorite fictional small towns – Sinclair Lewis's Gopher Prairie and Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon – reflect that heritage."[67] In 2007, The Moth, a NYC-based not-for-profit storytelling organization, awarded Garrison Keillor the first The Moth Award – Honoring the Art of the Raconteur at the annual Moth Ball.[68] In September 2007, Keillor was awarded the 2007 John Steinbeck Award, given to artists who capture "the spirit of Steinbeck's empathy, commitment to democratic values, and belief in the dignity of the common man."
he's also on the advisory board for the library of america and a published author.
and then there's you...
Grayson Morgan
>not at least enjoying "Ruth Harrison, Reference Librarian" It's that hipster fuck they got to replace him who's unbearable
Easton Allen
Keillor is a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.[48] He is 6 ft 3 in (1.90 m) tall.[49] He considers himself a loner and prefers not to make eye contact with people. Though not diagnosed, he also considers himself to be on the high-functioning end of the autism spectrum.[50] He spoke about his experiences as an autistic person in his keynote address at the 19th Annual Minnesota Autism Conference in 2014.[51][52]
No wonder an autist can understand the emotional depth of Kafka, Proust and to a lesser degree Ishiguro
Julian Ward
that should read *can't understand
Matthew Carter
He obviously doesn't know Kafka or Proust very well What a dumb hack
Evan Barnes
>literally demanding for more jewish control on culture
Wyatt Wright
>Let the Jews give the Nobel Prize. Cheeky kike.
Bentley Gray
God-damn OP, don't scare me like that.
I live in Minneapolis and I was briefly afraid that Garrison had won. He would have been even more absolutely god-damn insufferable than he already is, and I would have had to hear about it for months on end. Not to mention that two laureates in a row (despite Dylan having gotten the fuck out at the earliest convenience and never having looked back) would have given all Minnesotans an even more unwarranted self-importance. We live in a flyover, get the fuck over yourselves. Don't scare me like that OP!
Chase Wilson
Just finished The Remains of the Day. It was good. Didn't think I'd be so interested in the thoughts of a butler. Not sure what this guy means by saying Kazuo winning is a celebration of nihilism because the book I just read is very much the opposite of that.
Luis Thomas
>I say, let the Swedes give the prize for urban planning. Let the Jews give the Nobel Prize. They know from literature. Compare a list of great Jewish writers and a list of great Swedish writers. I rest my case. Is he talking about Philip "burgerkike" Roth?
Asher Hill
The line about "looking at bad wallpaper" was pretty funny desu. Keillor is intolerable though. I hate his show and his "aw geez" shtick. Regardless, Ishiguro shouldn't have won.
Owen Roberts
Who do you think should have won?
Juan Stewart
Graham Greene
Justin Hernandez
I'm alright with him because I don't have to be distracted by a lisp at least.
Isaac Martin
>Steinbeck's empathy, commitment to democratic values, and belief in the dignity of the common man Jesus christ I fucking hate steinbeck that fronting bourgeois hack
John Davis
The Nobel prize should be a hydrogen bomb for Sweden
Nicholas Gonzalez
Cormac McCarthy has to win soon... r-right?
Wyatt Ortiz
I read that whole thing in his voice
David Hernandez
Are you calling me a german? Go fuck yourself.
Robert Allen
He has a point about comic writing not being rewarded enough, though Proust and Austen are pretty funny and Roth isn't getting the prize more because SA members think he's a misogynist than because of his humor. But he's making a mistake at the other extreme in dismissing less overtly comic writing.
Ian Moore
An American won last year and another anglophone this year, I would say he has more chances of dying than getting the Nobel.
Henry Jones
well no because he has yet to write a good book or poem which is kind of what the prize is about so...
Nathan Lopez
Are you retarded? In what bizarro universe would anyone even entertain the idea of this nobody ever winning the Nobel?
Jordan Roberts
that's not true that he prefers not to make eye contact.
>flying out of MSP to go to ohio for a funeral >super early flight (5 am), getting some coffee after going through security in terminal 1 >tall guy walking in my direction, face is very striking >this guy looks so familiar, how do i know him?? >looking at him, sipping my coffee, wife is wondering why i'm staring at some dude >he makes eye contact with me >GLARE OF DEATH >quickly moves past us >2 minutes later realize that was GaryK and he was giving me the death stare so i wouldn't ask for his autograph/cause a scene
Jason Garcia
????
nigga do you know how they decide who to give the award to? one big criteria is that the artist be living at the date of the announcement.
also, while i enjoy me some greene, nobel prize? really? considering all the others who never received it who deserved it so much more?
Dylan Long
you're right ishiguru is far superior. so subtle, so intricate. why ever honestly communicate anything when so much can be said through emotionally detached narrators
Jaxon Miller
>le "you must be a lot of fun at parties" reddit-tier criticism >ripping into Kafka and Proust (both Jews) and then fellating the supposed supremacy of Jewish literature I think it's time for the urn, you old Boomer moron
Benjamin Sanchez
I assumed as a former politician he'd have an agenda to push. I will check out Feast of the Goat.
Leo White
>zionist who dislikes quinoa Holy shit. There is nothing more plebeian than this trash.
Jose Jenkins
I don't know idiot, how about the exact same bizarro wacky universe where:
-Donald Trump is president (this is a good thing) -The Chicago Cubs are the World Series Champions (again, good thing but wacky) -the talentless Zimmermann got a Nobel (this is not a good thing)
?
It's like you haven't noticed that we've slipped into a new time slip where everything is possible and all is permitted. Strange in a young person. You should be more idealistic for your age.
Noah Price
wow user good point
Luke Wright
As a son of Minnesota, I have to say that I never did like garrison Keillor.
Ryan Brown
An American sucking Jewish dick, never seen that before.
Angel Smith
it was bad enough when Al Franken became a senator
Bentley Cruz
you sound like youve read less than 200 books in your life and are 18-19 yo and consider yourself smart but lazy with no measurable achievement or discernible talent
Connor Barnes
You sound like the kind of person I would never like to meet. Just wanted you to know that.
Noah Rivera
Wtf I hate jews now
Isaiah Smith
...
Evan Russell
dwight ... easy on the gags
Adam Sullivan
Thile is a pretty good bluegrass musician though.
Jayden Young
this
Justin Lee
He's mediocre, with admittedly perfect control over his instrument. The majority of his popular works are covers, which is probably because his oc is a mess. Even his covers are unoriginal outside of instrument choice.
The cover of "another new world" played live in dublin is however is a work of unequivocal genius.
Xavier Jenkins
>Philip Roth should've won >not Cormac Mccarthy getting real tired of this shit
Noah Fisher
Not saying he doesn't have merit, but under what grounds would the committee officially award Chuck McShillelagh?
Connor Edwards
I feel like there are better arguments against awarding the prize to fucking Ishiguro than "he's too somber!"
What a retard.
Logan Flores
>The Swedes said he's like Jane Austen combined with Kafka with some of Proust, three other writers you'd never invite to a party. Jej
Bentley Carter
I don't agree with all of his points, but isn't he right about the nobel committee? It seems like they only give out prizes to famous people (like Bob Dylan) or writers who aren't all that amazing but fit the description of ""literature"" (like ishiguro). Seems like they never recognize true talent. Why does Bob Dylan and some no name journalist get a prize but not Cormac McCarthy or Thomas pynchon?
Asher Gutierrez
a minimalist, so almost Scandinavian, attitude to punctuation.
Grayson Walker
You can get your answer in fifty years or so. Won't be worth the wait
Jack Allen
>ishiguro isn't amazing let me guess you read 0-1 books of his but formed your opinion from a combination of wikipedia, "think"pieces, secondhand opinion, and sheer arbitrary judgements don't bother replying
Daniel Cox
>He has no idea what nihilism is and I guarantee you he hasn't read Austen, Kafka, Proust Yeah, and Peterson doesn't know what postmodernism is either Fuck, I hate Veeky Forums sometimes