Bob Dylan on receiving the Nobel:
"I was out on the road when I received this surprising news, and it took
me more than a few minutes to properly process it. I began to think
about William Shakespeare, the great literary figure. I would reckon he
thought of himself as a dramatist. The thought that he was writing
literature couldn't have entered his head. His words were written for
the stage. Meant to be spoken not read. When he was writing Hamlet, I'm
sure he was thinking about a lot of different things: "Who're the right
actors for these roles?" "How should this be staged?" "Do I really want
to set this in Denmark?" His creative vision and ambitions were no doubt
at the forefront of his mind, but there were also more mundane matters
to consider and deal with. "Is the financing in place?" "Are there
enough good seats for my patrons?" "Where am I going to get a human
skull?" I would bet that the farthest thing from Shakespeare's mind was
the question "Is this literature?"
Read his whole Nobel lecture here:
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2016/dylan-speech.html
All the best,
-tor
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mvh. torgeir
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