Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Prize lecture

Jimmy Carter delivers his Nobel Lecture. © Pressens Bild AB 2002, S-112 88 Stockholm, Sweden, tel: +46 (0)8 738 38 00. Photo: EPA Scanpix Norway POOL/Bjoern Sigurdson Nobel Lecture, Oslo, December 10, 2002 Your Majesties, Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I…

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Nobel Prize lecture

English Günter Grass delivered his Nobel Lecture in Börssalen at the Swedish Academy, Stockholm, 7 December 1999. “To Be Continued …” Honoured Members of the Swedish Academy, Ladies and Gentlemen: Having made this announcement, nineteenth-century works of fiction…

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Nobel Prize lecture

English Nobel Lecture, December 1984 (Translation) On the Pathetic and Lyrical State of Mind I am often asked, particularly by foreigners, how one can explain the great love of poetry in my country: why there exists among us not only an interest in poems but even a need for poetry. Perhaps that means my countrymen…

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Nobel Prize lecture

Czech Pøedná¹ka k udìlení Nobelovy ceny. V prosinci 1984. O patetickém a lyrickém stavu ducha Často se setkávám, především u cizinců, s otázkou, čím je možno vysvětlit velkou oblibu poezie v mé zemi, proč je u nás nejen zájem o básně, ale dokonce potřeba poezie, a tím snad i schopnost ji vnímat, znatelně větší než…

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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…

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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…

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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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