[lit-ideas] Re: Successor to Arthur Miller?
- From: Harold Hungerford <hh@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 21:19:07 -0800
Oops, left out Heaney.
On Feb 12, 2005, at 9:16 PM, Harold Hungerford wrote:
> From a dinner-table conversation: with the death of Arthur Miller, is
> there anyone now living and writing in English with Miller's kind of
> commanding stature?
>
> I can think offhand of Updike. How can there not be anyone else?
>
> As a help, there are seven living Nobel laureates who write/wrote in
> English: Coetzee, Naipaul, Walcott, Gordimer, Soyinka, and Bellow. Only
> Bellow is American. (Miller, of course, never received the Nobel --
> part of a long illustrious lineage of non-winners who included Tolstoy
> (whose omission is absolutely unforgivable), Twain, James, Lawrence,
> Joyce, Williams, Frost, Nabokov, Borges; the listing of the laureates
> is just for a start.)
>
> Ideas?
>
>
> Harold Hungerford
> Santa Rosa, California
>
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