Nobel Jubilee Symposia, 1991 The Situation of High-Quality Literature in the Harsh Cultural Climate of Today (1991, NJS 91-4) Sture Allén, Kjell Epsmark December, 1991, Stockholm Proceedings: Sture Allén; The Situation of High-Quality Literature (1993), Almqvist & Wiksell International, Stockholm, Sweden ISBN 91-22-01567-1

 

Table of Contents
Welcome Address Sture Allén	1
The Rise of Difficult Literature. A Historical Survey Kjell Espmark	5
Why Japanese Literature is Not Difficult Shuichi Kato	21
Carry on, Gutenberg! Two Cheers for a Minority Hans Magnus Enzensberger	33
Poésie et culture apoétique Adonis	47
Difficult Literature and Commercial Publishing	59
Bei Dao	59
Brenda Walker	63
Agneta Markås	71
Common Reader and Common Man Lars Forssell	81
The Other Voice Octavio Paz	91
The Role of Visual Media Jean d'Ormesson	105
On the Role of the Translator Göran Malmqvist	117
For Whom the Crumbling Belfry Tolls Joseph Brodsky	137