Literature
Wole Soyinka – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Wole Soyinka’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1986 Your Majesties, Ladies and Gentlemen, It was inevitable that the Nordic world and the African, especially that part of it which constitutes the Yoruba world – should meet at the crossroads of Sweden. That I am the agent of such a symbolic encounter is due…
moreWole Soyinka – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1986 This Past Must Address Its Present A rather curious scene, unscripted, once took place in the wings of a London theatre at the same time as the scheduled performance was being presented on the actual stage, before an audience. What happened was this: an actor refused to come on stage…
moreIsaac Bashevis Singer – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
8 December 1978 The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full sense of the word, not just a preacher of social or political ideals. There is no paradise for bored readers and no excuse for tedious literature that does not intrigue…
moreHeinrich Böll – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
German Nobelvorlesung am 2. Mai 1973 Versuch über die vernunft der poesie Es wird von denen, die es wissen müssten, gesagt – und von anderen, die es ebenfalls wissen müssten, bestritten – dass bei etwas anscheinend so Rationalem, Berechenbarem, von Architekten, Zeichnern, Ingenieuren, Arbeitern gemeinsam Erbrachtem wie einer Brücke ein paar Millimeter bis Zentimeter Unberechenbarkeit…
moreHeinrich Böll – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
English Nobel Lecture on 2 May, 1973 (Translation) An Essay on the Reason of Poetry It is said by those who ought to know – and by others, who also ought to know, it is disputed – that in matters which to all appearances are rational, calculable and achieved by the combined efforts of architects,…
moreHeinrich Böll – Prose
Prose
English Excerpt from The Clown I It was dark by the time I reached Bonn, and I forced myself not to succumb to the series of mechanical actions which had taken hold of me in five years of traveling back and forth: down the station steps, up the station steps, put down my suitcase, take…
moreHeinrich Böll – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Heinrich Böll’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1972 (in German) Herr Ministerpräsident, meine Damen und Herren, anlässlich eines Besuchs in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland hat Seine Majestät der König von Schweden einen gelehrten Blick in die Schichten der Vergänglichkeit getan, aus der wir kommen und auf der wir wohnen. Vielleicht hat der…
moreHeinrich Böll – Prose
Prose
German Auszug von Ansichten eines Clowns I Es war schon dunkel, als ich in Bonn ankam, ich zwang mich, meine Ankunft nicht mit der Automatik ablaufen zu lassen, die sich in fünfjährigem Unterwegssein herausgebildet hat: Bahnsteigtreppe runter, Bahnsteigtreppe rauf, Reisetasche abstellen, Fahrkarte aus der Manteltasche nehmen, Reisetasche aufnehmen, Fahrkarte abgeben, zum Zeitungsstand, Abendzeitungen kaufen, nach…
moreHeinrich Böll – Nobel diploma
Nobel diploma
François Mauriac – Bibliography
Bibliography
Selected works in French 1. Novels and stories L’enfant chargé de chaînes. – Paris : Grasset, 1913 La robe prétexte. – Paris : Grasset, 1914 La chair et le sang. – Paris : Emile-Paul, 1920 Préséances. – Paris : Emile-Paul, 1921 Le baiser au lépreux. – Paris : Grasset, 1922 Le fleuve de feu. –…
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