“All writers belong to the class of non-orators,” Thomas Mann warned
his audience at the outset, accepting the Nobel prize for literature in
1929 in a self-described state of “festive intoxication”. In a paradox
the 2017 laureate, Kazuo Ishiguro must be keenly aware of as he
undergoes this week’s induction process, the Nobel honours authors for
their books but asks them to appear in person (though some, such as Bob Dylan last year, refuse) and morph into celebrity performers expert in the very different art of rhetoric.
The contrast was starkly exemplified 20 years after Mann by William
Faulkner, whose brief speech (calling for writers to return to the
anguish of “the old verities ... of the heart”) was little understood
even by anglophone listeners when delivered – he had a heavy southern
accent and zero microphone technique – but once it appeared as a text
was hailed as an inspirational classic. ... [mehr] https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2017/dec/07/how-to-collect-a-nobel-prize-for-literature
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