File spoon-archives/baudrillard.archive/baudrillard_1999/baudrillard.9906, message 12


Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 11:02:15 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Grethe Hjordis Lehre Melby <Grethe.Melby-AT-student.uib.no>
Subject: Re: The Matrix and film


On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Aleksei O. Pozdnyakov wrote:


> I can in principle understand your thinkings about Zola and
> Joyce, but how could they overlook the greatest scandinavian writer
> Henric Ibsen (Norway)? Knut Gamsun was awarded actually but only after

Knut Hamsum is widely debated in Norway cause he used to be a member of
the Nazi
party in Norway during ww2, He even gave Hitler a visit. On the other
hand, he is
forgiven by most Norwegians. He did not understand what was really going
on.

By the way, Sigrid Undset from Norway also won a Nobel prize.


> In general it is interesting that during all the existence of Nobel
> Prize only 2 writers from Asia and 2 from Africa were awarded. I think
> that it is also strange. Russians were awarded 5 times: Bunin, Sholohov,
> Pasternak, Brodskii(!!), Soljenicin. The total number of Nobel Prises
> is not less than 100. So this Prize can be considered as a prise for
> the writers from Europe and USA. Why then they present it as
> "international" prise?? Why they need this?
> 

take a look at all things called "international" in this world. Most of it
is western. Haven't you heard the term Eurocentrism?

What about the human rights. On what base of values are they made? Andf
are we sorry for that?

This is anyway an old story. Why so shocked?

Grethe


   

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