Since she had been told by "Judas". He said in Manchester in 1966, in one of the recitals, the most emblematic of the history of rock. In the recordings you listen to with sharpness: it comes with his electric guitar in the middle of a show and sound from the audience would shout out "Judas" for betraying the folk of guitarrras of wood, have electrified the genre. It was one of the many conceptual revolutions of this great artist. Today nobody would use that word but the debate is in the air: the Nobel Prize for Literature to Bob Dylan is a desecration to the literature or an act of justice?
When at eight in the morning yesterday, argentina, it was announced that Dylan was the new Nobel, the social networks exploded. Some took it as a provocation or an act of demagoguery: how was it possible, they argued, that the Swedish Academy awarded to someone who has only two published books: Tarantula, a collection of poetic prose and Chronicles volume 1, the first volume of an autobiography. What they saw as a lack of respect to those who have works, vast and organic. Other found in the appointment a blow of fresh air, the end of a debate already perimido between what is culture, high culture and low, and a recognition of what is popular and what really massive. Sergio Pujol, essayist, argentine, asked yesterday in a text: "justice has Been done with popular music, with rock, with its great poet. But, frankly, do not like this a bit to the old exhortation of argentina, with many claiming that their idols popular entering of a good time on the stage of the Teatro Colón?" Dylan might share the essence of this idea: not appeared all day.
The question about what is a writer through the whole of the literary criticism of the TWENTIETH century and it is a debate that changes with the currents of thought. The TWENTY-first century was inclined to think that literature is no longer the case in the books; to the extent that the fiction has regressed to the non-fiction and other hybrid genres. But the jurors of the Nobel peace prize not used these contemporary theories on the justification of the judgment but which traced much further back: "If you look back, the very back, you have to Homer and to Sappho, who wrote poetic texts meant to be heard, to be interpreted with instruments. In the same way with Bob Dylan. We still read Homer and Sappho, and enjoy it, and the same with Bob Dylan, he can be read and must be read. Is a great poet in the poetic tradition in English."
beyond the two books he has published, then, the work of Dylan would be a literature without a book, a literature of orality. With this Nobel prize comes a new complexity: how is it translated? One option is to think that no translation possible. The be music in English it reads like this, always, in its original language. It would not be necessary to "understand" the words, but left to pass through the musicality and textures of a language sung.
The other option is to translate all of their songs and package them in a book. That book, in fact, exist: it is called Letters, and compiles all of their songs until 2007 (can also be read in goddylan.com). Does anyone have read that book cover to cover, in full, in silence? It is difficult to imagine that, yes. On the other hand, the lyrics of Dylan have generated something that only generates good literature: tons and tons of criticism. From books to newspaper articles that are trying to find connections biographical behind the songs up to hundreds of thesis.
The 60s were the time of greater communion between Bob Dylan and the institution of the literary of his country, and were, without doubt, the golden years of their production. The photos are everywhere: walking with Allen Ginsberg in New York or at the grave of Jack Kerouac, playing the guitar. In the extraordinary documentary by Martin Scorsese about the musician, No direction Home, Allen Ginsberg says that when she heard for the first time Hard Rain is gonna fall, a song pouring whitmaniana, he felt that the torch of the beatniks had been picked up by a new generation. Dylan was the heir, the prodigal son, and in that sense, this award can be read also as the Nobel for that generation. Mixture of surrealism, portrait and social, the lyrics of Dylan’s 62 to 69 are effectively time high of lyrics in north america and this is a prize to the counterculture of the 60′s.
One of the critical groundwater that has been done to this award ceremony, too, has to do with the fact that in recent years, the Academy seems to have neglected the novelists, who have been for a good part of the TWENTIETH century something as well as the literature itself. Alice Munro (short story writer), Svetlana Alexievich (journalist), Bob Dylan (musician). What has happened to the novelists? One of the major candidates was Philip Roth, indeed is a novelist. The not giving it away, what the Academy is saying something regarding the timeliness of the genre novel? It is difficult to know. So soon, it was 23 years that the award didn’t deserve an american, and it is possible that now the possibilities of the great Roth are fulminadas. And yet, there is mention of a primacy that also should be analyzed, that is, the absolute primacy of the English language as a language more premiad. The Nobel prize is a prize of the cultural hegemony, to use a term ideological, and that fact is reaffirmed.
For the rest, nothing changes right now in the life of Bob Dylan, who had already won the Prince of Asturias award and the Pulitzer. This weekend has to go back to playing in the Desert Trip, the concert of old pop rock in a californian desert, and has twenty concerts scheduled for the coming months. As all life, to live almost every other day. is Your books are not going to sell more, because they have almost no books. The whole world will talk of him, but all the world is talking about it from who sang Blowing in the Wind to early 60′s. What this award makes it bigger? Fans would say that he could no longer reach above and that this information is a minor in his biography next to albums such as Blonde on Blonde or Blood on the Tracks. Some speculated even with that rejection, to show the institution that it is not she who has to legitimize the popular culture. So yes they will talk, apparently, is the Nobel peace Prize and what are their criteria of selection and awards. And always keep in mind that the list of non-awarded (Borges, Tolstoy, Proust, Kafka, Nabokov, Joyce, Pasolini, and a long etcetera) is far superior to the list of award recipients, and that says all there is to say about the Nobel.
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