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Subject: Re: More on Pynchon
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Re: Pynchon as a creation of Nabokov

Now, that makes more sense than anything else I've read on the
net during this discussion of Pynchon.  Actually, Nabokov is a
fictional creation of Vivian Darkbloom.

Bringing up Nabokov makes me wonder: What other de facto giants
of 20th century literature never received a Nobel prize?  Kafka, 
Joyce, Proust, and Cherdyntsev-Goudonov immediately come to mind.
It may be due in some part to the fact that the prize is supposed
to go to a "living" author whose writing exemplifies some kind of
"humanistic positivism" or something like that.  That's why such
soft authors as Pearl Buck and John Steinbeck (both enjoyable,
but not of the class that grantors of the prize would like them
to appear to be) have won.  And the fact that all the previously
mentioned non-winners are not "living" means that the Nobel 
committee can't backtrack to make up for sins of omission.

Oh, well.  C'est la litterature.