On the ability of a prizewinning book to change minds

    Lit, Etc.
Oct 142005
 

Banville doesn’t always help his own case. A few hours before the cer­e­mony he con­fided to an Amer­i­can jour­nal­ist that The Sea was “a bad book”. [Link]

‘It is nice,” said John Banville on Mon­day night, “to see a work of art win the Booker prize.“[Link]

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  5 Responses to “On the ability of a prizewinning book to change minds”

  1. Lavanya says:
    Oct, 14 2005 at 3:26 am

    I sup­pose Banville could still save face because he did not really say good work of art :)

    And Karthik — why is Banville get­ting so much of footage on Sto­chas­tica in the last cou­ple of days? Chang­ing opin­ions are we? ;)

  2. Gp says:
    Oct, 14 2005 at 5:35 am

    Hows the book by the way? The review was not very kind.

  3. Karthik says:
    Oct, 14 2005 at 9:09 am

    Lavanya, I am very neu­tral on Banville. I haven’t read a book by him — my two posts have been point­ers to arti­cles about him win­ning the Booker. I am try­ing to get hold of The Sea, and I promise, I’ll give it a fair shot. :)

    Gp, Haven’t read the book but yes, the reviews haven’t been very kind like you say.

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  5. +: etcetera :+ » Get in line, please - there’s enough prizes for everyone! says:
    Dec, 22 2005 at 2:10 am

    […] A New Yorker review of The Econ­omy of Pres­tige, a book by James Eng­lish where he argues that “the threat of scan­dal” is essen­tial to the via­bilty of a lit­er­ary award, and that it is “at least as impor­tant that the prize go to the wrong per­son as that it go to the right one.” That explains Banville. (sorry Lavanya). […]

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