tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post1806234756927737612..comments2024-03-27T21:39:23.192-07:00Comments on Sacnoth's Scriptorium: Tolkien and the Nobel PrizeJohn D. Rateliffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-71221815838389985442020-02-29T20:07:54.367-08:002020-02-29T20:07:54.367-08:00Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" and So...Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" and Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch" were both taught in my high school.<br /><br />One of the contributions to the 1962 Tolkien festschrift quotes Beckett's play.<br /><br />I read a few Neruda poems in translation, but know him best as a character in the excellent Italian film, "The Postman" (1994).<br /><br />The only others on the 1969 list whose names I recognize are Grass, Böll, and Johnson.N.E. Brigandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17601573470596905112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-10686002777734075602020-02-26T09:35:41.989-08:002020-02-26T09:35:41.989-08:00Too bad the kids didn't much care for Solzheni...Too bad the kids didn't much care for Solzhenitsyn's Harvard address. Maybe if they'd also had to read some pages of The Black Book of Communism, if Yale's translation was available at the time, it would have been helpful.Wurmbrandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17345523517796356674noreply@blogger.com