Letter To Ask For Franchise

the show must go on

In a recent interview granted to the Associated Press, Secretary of the Swedish Academy, Horace Engdahl, said: U.S. is too insular, too isolated. Do not translate enough and do not participate in the big dialogue of literature. This kind of ignorance they are limited. They are too sensitive to trends in their own mass culture ... Apparently the academic not without some reason, in denouncing what the culture market has currently literature, not only in America but worldwide, since in Latin America are also beginning to thrive various writers of design, which we marketed as literary fashions, but we must recognize that generalizes too much of a country also has real and profound writers. Now, let us look at the Swedish Academy, which he represents and is responsible for electing the Nobel Prize for Literature, an award that has become adverse to that version Light the academic literature, so implicitly criticizes ever released in October a new Best Seller, which amounts to something of a nontraditional product in the market, but is willing to make at all costs its position within the same and that is, both the market and the academy, seem to be engaged in a media battle to occupy the best position of the display cases in supermarkets, with something that could be described as non-literature, for although what big publishing books we have are very superficial, which the Nobel Prize has given us in recent years seem to be books with a value added selections where the trends seem to outweigh political and humanitarian author's literary level is reached in his work. And it happens that someone who is not a communist, socialist renovated, a supporter of terrorist groups Third, feminist, indigenous, pacifist, environmentalist, animal advocate, anti-neoliberal globalofobico or, for those follies of life, is devoted to the occurrence of sympathetic letters, is someone who already is doomed not to be one of the Swedish canon big names, already the go into the list of Nobel Prize winners is like visiting a telephone directory in which inevitably over some names sound familiar to us, but in which the majority are completely unknown, now clear that all winners are guaranteed their 15 minutes of fame, after which they will fade into the nearest sewer literature, such and as will happen sooner or later Ultra Light prefabricated authors of both scholars deny.

The prize has always been controversial, but recent unrest has become more noticeable, especially after the resignation of Knut Ahnlund academic, who made it very clear all the banality that has gradually been undergoing the same, to influence the selection extraliterary aspects fully, but, like all modern franchise that claims to be genuine, ongoing and will continue to create excitement and huge sales volumes and we who live obsessed with intellectual market fluctuations and trends of literary fashion, we will be on the lookout tomorrow to see who wins this year, saying that Monterroso, literature that there is nothing written.