Nobel lectures
Subtitle: from the literature laureates, 1986 to 2006.
Publisher: New Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781595582010
Subjects: Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Literature, Modern -- 21st century -- History and criticism; Literature -- Philosophy; Nobel Prizes
Notes: Originally published: Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 2006.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: My father's suitcase / Orhan Pamuk; title: Art, truth and politics / Harold Pinter; title: Sidelined / Elfriede Jelinek; title: He and his man / J.M. Coetzee; title: Heureka! / Imre Kertész; title: Worlds / V.S. Naipaul; title: The case for literature / Gao Xingjian; title: To be continued ... / Günter Grass; title: How characters became the masters and the author their apprentice / José Saramago; title: Contra jogulatores obloquentes (against jesters who defame and insult) / Dario Fo; title: The poet and the world / Wislawa Szymborska; title: Crediting poetry / Seamus Heaney; title: Japan, the ambiguous, and myself / Kenzaburo Oe; title: The bird is in your hands / Toni Morrison; title: The Antilles: fragments of epic memory / Derek Walcott; title: Writing and being / Nadine Gordimer; title: In search of the present / Octavio Paz; title: Eulogy to the fable / Camilo José Cela; title: Mankind's coming of age / Naguib Mahfouz; title: Aesthetics and language / Joseph Brodsky; title: This past must address its present / Wole Soyinka; title: Laureates, 1901 to 2006.