Bob Dylan and the Nobel Academy in Stockholm-sture Bob – daily mirror

George Bernard Shaw responded irritated, as the prize has been awarded. He get him as a reward for this that he had published for a year, nothing. This happened in 1925. Later, he accepted the Nobel prize, but came to the Party. His Irish compatriot, Samuel Beckett made it similar. He stayed in 1969, Stockholm, and distributed the money among the needy, friends. Jean-Paul Sartre refused the 1964 award and no money taken, on the grounds that he does not see, “that and fifty old men who write bad books, should me Excel. I want the reader to say what I’m worth." In addition, the Academy had not informed him that the question of acceptance or rejection to be part of its articles of Association. There was a scandal. Sartre was pride accu sed. Elfriede Jelinek is not accepted in 2004, the ennoble, appeared in Stockholm, but sent her Nobel lecture via Video. Everything is half as wild. Really bad, what with the Nobel prize laureate of 1958 happened. Boris Pasternak had to decline the award under pressure from the Soviet power.

There has been some Irritation in the history of the still most important prize for literature. And now Bob Dylan is not responding. It still has no sound, him heard to the for many but surprising decision to honor this time, a singer / poet. In the Swedish Academy, accuses him of arrogance. He did not come to the telephone.

A Surprise is not, if you are not familiar a little with Dylan. The defence of the Public sphere was the leitmotif of his career. Press conferences mid-sixties, there are recordings that show how the genius is not saved as a young brat incredibly funny and quick-witted but also super stupid questions from the press, the understood that a different time had begun. And then he disappears. No further questions, for decades to come. Only sometimes, a Song about false headlines in the press: “Idiot Wind”.

Invisible, like Thomas Pynchon, he is not, after all, hardly a rock star is so often on the stage as Bob Dylan. But also the never ending tour belongs to the Camouflage. As soon as he introduces his band members. He simply says nothing. He sings his songs. He is on his way, he, alone, is strongly present: with new albums and the publication of ancient, partly of unknown material, with his painting and, more recently, as a sculptor, with his radio show.

he Will come to Sweden? The Nobel week for the 6. December a press conference for the 7. the Nobel Lecture, for the 10. the ceremony and honorary dinner. A Horror for a person who is not afraid of such a spotlight. Dylan’s tour calendar in November is filled to the brim for December no dates yet. If he does not want to but absolutely, there are Alternatives. Todd Haynes has made a great Dylan Film, “I’m Not There”, a bizarre Biopic, with six Dylan-performer, and a late Western. Cate Blanchett meets him at the best. It is even better as the volatile Original. You can keep travel to Stockholm and Bob Dylan’s speech: “It Ain’t Me, Babe.”