The Nobel prize for Bob Dylan is equivalent to a decision of the Supreme Court. The judges of the Nobel peace prize, declared Thursday that Dylan is not only a “rock star” but a poet of the highest level.
Dylan, age 75, became the first musician in the 115 year history of the Nobel peace prize in winning the Literature prize. He was recognized for “having created a new poetic expressions within the great tradition of american song”.
Is the maximum ascent of man that has always generated a debate about whether the lyrics of the songs, especially the rock, can be considered art. Dylan, who gave the world “Like a Rolling Stone”, “Blowin’ in the Wind” and dozens more, is now on a list that includes Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, and T. S. Eliot, the latter of which is mentioned in Dylan’s song “Desolation Row”.
“Congratulations to one of my favorite poets, Bob Dylan, a Nobel prize well-deserved”, tweeted the president of the United States, Barack Obama, who in 2012 gave the singer the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Dylan rarely gives interviews, and a representative said that when the musician would not provide a statement about it. The is on tour and had scheduled a performance in Las Vegas on Thursday night.
The surprising announcement made in Stockholm was greeted with euphoria and dismay.
Many fans cite Dylan as if it were Shakespeare, there are college courses dedicated to his work and volumes of academic work on their songs, even the judges include citations to Dylan in their legal opinions as “The times they are a-changing” (times are changing) and “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows” (you don’t need a weatherman to know where the wind blows).
With the announcement of the Nobel peace prize this year, a lot of people, especially americans, were not without knowing who was the award-winning, as happened with Patrick Modiano or J. M. G. Le Clézio.
Others, however, lamented the lost opportunity for the books.
“it Is a reward of nostalgia ill-conceived, plucked from the prostates rancid of hippies senile and balbuceantes”, wrote on Twitter the scottish author of “Trainspotting”, Irvine Welsh. “If you’re a fan of the ‘music’ searches for it in the dictionary. After ‘literature’ and compare the two”.
“I Understand fully the committee of the Nobel peace prize”, tweeted the writer Gary Shteyngart. “Reading books is difficult.”
The newspaper of The Vatican L’osservatore Romano pointed out that some “writers real,” they are probably not pleased.
however, several outstanding authors celebrated the news.
Morrison said in a statement that he was pleased and that Dylan was “a choice impressive.”
Salman Rushdie, who has written songs with Bono, vocalist of U2, tweeted: “Dylan is the heir to a brilliant tradition bárdica. Great choice.”
The eternal candidate to the Nobel Joyce Carol Oates tweeted: “Its haunting music and lyrics have always seemed, in the deepest sense, the literary”.
The award to Dylan was also well received by an organization for literary venerable: the Academy of Poets American.
“The fact that Bob Dylan get the Nobel Prize recognizes the importance of literature in the oral tradition and the fact that the literature and the poetry exist in the culture in different ways,” said executive director Jennifer Benka in a statement.
critics debated if “Visions of Johanna” is as literary as “Waiting for Godot”, however, the place of Dylan between the musicians is unquestionable. It is the most influential composer of his time, who gave him a new depth, scope, and complexity to the lyrics of the rock, as well as opening up for Springsteen, Joni Mitchell and countless more artists who were able to get rid of the constrained limits of the love songs or dance.
Before the Nobel prize, Dylan was the only “rock star” which received a Pulitzer prize fee. Also, people forget that it is in fact the author, was nominated for a prize from the Circle National Literary Critics for her book of memoirs, “Chronicles: Volume One”.
it Is the first american to win the Nobel since Morrison it had achieved in 1993, and his prize may possibly affect the chances of other american authors such as Philip Roth and Don DeLillo, as judges tend to share it with the world.
“I Doubt that Philip Roth and Don DeLillo would prefer to have written “Mr. Tambourine Man” vs. AMERICAN PASTORAL or the UNDERWORLD”, tweeted the biographer of Roth, Blake Bailey, with reference to the novels-acclaimed Roth and DeLillo. “But that’s okay.”
The life of Dylan has been a hybrid of influences, popular and literary. A native of Duluth, Minnesota, he adored Elvis Presley and James Dean when I was a child, but also read voraciously and seemed to absorb virtually every style of american music.
Their lyrics make reference to (and are sometimes taken from) The Bible, the Civil War, and Herman Melville. Has said that his classic album “Blood on the Tracks” was inspired by the stories of Anton Chekhov.
His songs can be sharp and accusatory (“Idiot Wind,” “Positively 4th Street”), apocalyptic (“A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”), dense, and mind-boggling (“Desolation Row”), tender, and melancholy (“Visions of Johanna”), political (“Hurricane”, “Only a Pawn in their Game”), mysterious and even absurd (“Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again”).
“Blowin’ in the Wind” became an anthem instant of protest in the 1960s, although it sounded as if it came from the oral tradition of another century with lines like: “How many times must the cannon balls fly before they’re forever banned?” (How many times must fly into the bullets of the cannon before being banned forever?).
“Like a Rolling Stone”, about a woman who is rich and haughty who is left with nothing, was declared the song greatest of all time by Rolling Stone magazine. This recording of six minutes of 1965 ended with the notion that a success was to last for three minutes.
In a press conference, precisely in 1965, he asked Dylan if it was considered a singer or a poet, and he replied: “I think more like a man of song and dance.”
His career has been a blend as complex styles elusive and ever changing that it took six actors, including Cate Blanchett, to embody it in the movie based on his life, “I’m Not There” (“My story without me”), 2007.
Won an Oscar in 2001 for the song “Things Have Changed” and a prize of the Academy of Arts and Sciences of the Recording for his career in 1991.
Dylan is the winner less conventional of the Nobel prize for Literature since 1997, when the prize went to the Italian playwright Dario Fo, whose works, said some, should be performed to be understood in their entirety. In a sad coincidence, Fo died Thursday, the same day of the announcement of the Nobel peace prize, at 90 years.
The Literature is the last of the Nobel to be announced. The six awards — including Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Peace and Economics — will be handed over in a ceremony on December 10, the death anniversary of the founder of the prize, Alfred Nobel, died in 1896.
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