Following up on
what I just said, as I'm wont to do, it would be remiss not to point out that not only has Philip Roth not been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but neither was a certain John Updike. The Swedish academy had plenty of time to do so. What's the root of the European aversion to American literature? Admittedly, Faulkner and Bellow were worthy recipients, but now we're pushing it back thirty-five years. Europeans don't go unscathed in the Nobel oversights either: Nabokov? Joyce? Proust?
Slate had a good piece on this last year.
Here it is.
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