Within days of the award winner's name being announced Nobel Prize for Literature a curious controversy has been created around the nationality of the possible winner.
The stone of the scandal has been the controversial statements of the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, horace engdahl, in that the literature of United States It is part of a culture that remains outside the main literary currents of the world, that is, those of Europe (according to the Swedish), which is the true center of the world literary universe.
According to some, these statements predict little chance of staying with the Nobel for an American (the loudest sounding names are those of Joyce Carol Oates, Philip Roth, Thomas Pynchon y Don DeLillo (and given the mere enumeration of the names, one would like to have enough time to read them all, in full, and to be able to give an opinion with true knowledge of the facts)) and they have made the Italian names resurface Claudio Magris, from Syrian-Lebanese Adonis and from the israeli Amos Oz.
On the other hand, there are those who think that Hispanic letters, and the fact that they have not had an award Nobel In the last 18 years, he has played in favor of Spanish and Latin Americans.
However, for others, the statements of engdahl They can also be a maneuver to achieve one of the specialties of the Swedish academy: to surprise.
In addition, what the Swede said has raised quite a controversy within United States, where the idea that they are not the center of the world is probably only accepted when they really cease to be the center of the world.
In the midst of the controversy, engdahl has had to go out to say that the Nobel It is not an award that is awarded to literatures or countries but to authors, but it is too late, passions are unleashed and will only calm down next Thursday the 13th when the name of the winner is heard.