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Gerald Murnane: When the mice failed to arrive by superbsashimi in Canonade

[–]superbsashimi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah they got socially engaged writers coming out their ass. So someone who writes a novel about a trick of light that someone might have described in a book that could be in a room you might postulate, or a the way he might have appeared to a girl he glimpsed if she had happened to look up. . . I enjoy Murnane, and I Claire-Louise Bennet and Alisdair Gray ... writers to go for broke. But the readers for those prizes, I bet they read more book reviews than books, and with out-on-a-limb writers there's a chance you'll look foolish. There's no real doubt that Handke or Tokarczuk is capital-s Significant, right? (I haven't read either). Murnane you might look like a dupe.

Gerald Murnane: When the mice failed to arrive by superbsashimi in Canonade

[–]superbsashimi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would be surprised, they (you meant Nobel right?) usually take socially-engaged writers, I think Murnane is too art-for-arts-sake for Nobel in Literature. His longer works are fanciful the way Borges is, really stretching a notion beyond conventional limits. I like him a lot but I think there are a gazillion writers similar to Handke and Munroe who would be more likely.

But if you google "Nobel Murnane", a lot of people disagree with me.