| Any guesses? Has to be Margaret Atwood this time, right? |
| I seriously doubt that |
I'm sure it's going to be Trump for Art of the Deal.
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| Laszlo Krasznahorkai |
Another obscure European postmodernist. The Nobel committee sure has a type, doesn't it? |
He is Hungarian. Anyone with the name Laszlo is going to be Hungarian. |
Is Hungary not in Europe? |
| Anyone read his book The Melancholy of Resistance? Is it a tough read due to lack of punctuation? |
Actually, Hungary is in Eastern Europe. |
Is Eastern Europe not in Europe? |
That was not necessarily implied. It was narrowing down European. |
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Be more engaged in a 400 page book with one sentence in it than on
Is Eastern Europe not in Europe you pot stirrer. |
| I mean ... the writing is complex. Hard to read, but the writer is a genius and doing something other brilliant writers literally can't do. This prize is not about what the majority of people "like," or who is most popular. Or shouldn't be, anyway. |
No, not really. You Americans flunk every geographical question outside of the 50 states. Congratulations on a sustained an expected level of stupidity. |
Wikipedia differs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Europe Look here in Amurrica all those places were and always will be thought of as Commie Countries behind the Iron Curtain. |