Literature
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
English (pdf) Nobel Lecture in Literature 1970 1 Just as that puzzled savage who has picked up – a strange cast-up from the ocean? – something unearthed from the sands? – or an obscure object fallen down from the sky? – intricate in curves, it gleams first dully and then with a bright thrust of…
moreMiguel Angel Asturias – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
English Nobel Lecture, 12th December 1967 (Translation) The Latin American Novel Testimony of an Epoch I would have preferred this meeting to have been called a colloquium instead of lecture – a dialogue of doubts and assertions on the subject that concerns us. Let us start by analysing the antecedents of Latin American literature in…
moreMiguel Angel Asturias – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Spanish Conferencia Nobel, el 12 de diciembre de 1967 La novela latinoamericana Testimonio de una época Hubiera querido que a este encuentro no se le llamara conferencia sino coloquio, diálogo de dudas y afirmaciones sobre el tema que nos ocupa. Empezaremos analizando los antecedentes de la literatura latinoamericana en general, deteniendo nuestra atención en aquellos…
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