Welcher King-Roman hat den Literaturnobelpreis verdient?

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Eventuell müsste man dazu weiter ausholen und fragen, ob Schriftsteller, die einmal in die Trivialliteratur abgeschoben wurden, , wirklich ernst genommen werden.

Dieses Schwarz-Weiß-Denken, dieses Beharren auf zwei Kategorien (Echte Literatur™ vs. Der Rest™) ist in diesen zwei Artikeln hier schön kritisiert.

At a Marriott Hotel in New York City this week, the National Book Foundation plans to hand Stephen King its Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

News of King's crowning met with predictable sneers from the literary snobs, along with a few weak and equally predictable cheers from the reverse snobs. But both sides are kind of missing the point, which is that we — that is, we readers — have an odd and deeply ingrained habit of dividing books into two mutually exclusive heaps, one high and literary and one low and trashy, and we should stop it. Books aren't high or low. They're just good or bad.

Bingo.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... 85,00.html
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2003/11/20 ... 01103.html