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Wednesday, December 01, 2004
The Pearl S. Buck of Kneejerk Anti-Americanism?Does anyone else think it's weird that the author of Bambiland, apparently a scathing play about America and the Iraq war, has never even been to the United States? God knows there's plenty to criticize about the war, and I never expected the Nobel Committee to ignore it. But Elfriede Jelinek was a member of the Communist Party right up until the Soviet Union fell (and funds dried up) in 1991. Just the title Bambiland is a cliché. In Stockholm they're shaking their jowls and saying the literature prize isn't politically-motivated. But is it anything else, by now?
posted by Michael Scott Moore |
10:25 AM
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