Nobel lectures : from the literature laureates, 1986 to 2006.

Bibliographic Details
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New Press, [2007]
Subjects:	Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism. Literature, Modern > 21st century > History and criticism. Literature > Philosophy. Nobel Prizes.

Table of Contents:

My father's suitcase / Orhan Pamuk
Art, truth and politics / Harold Pinter
Sidelined / Elfriede Jelinek
He and his man / J.M. Coetzee
Heureka! / Imre Kertész
Worlds / V.S. Naipaul
The case for literature / Gao Xingjian
To be continued ... / Günter Grass
How characters became the masters and the author their apprentice / José Saramago
Contra jogulatores obloquentes (against jesters who defame and insult) / Dario Fo
The poet and the world / Wislawa Szymborska
Crediting poetry / Seamus Heaney
Japan, the ambiguous, and myself / Kenzaburo Oe
The bird is in your hands / Toni Morrison
The Antilles: fragments of epic memory / Derek Walcott
Writing and being / Nadine Gordimer
In search of the present / Octavio Paz
Eulogy to the fable / Camilo José Cela
Mankind's coming of age / Naguib Mahfouz
Aesthetics and language / Joseph Brodsky
This past must address its present / Wole Soyinka
Laureates, 1901 to 2006.