[lit-ideas] Successor to Arthur Miller?
- From: Harold Hungerford <hh@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 21:16:45 -0800
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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