December 12, 2008
Scandinavian Culture: It's a Scream!
When Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf awards the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature on December 10 to the beguiling French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio — the Swedish Academy doesn't always get things wrong — American literary mandarins will sniffily look the other way.
Since Horace Engdahl, the Swedish Academy's permanent secretary, unleashed the Number One Literary Insult of 2008 — his now hyperannotated declaration that U.S. culture remains
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