ANOTHER RESPONSE TO JON FOSSE’S NOBEL PRIZE WIN

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What is the point of life?

To be remembered. To be recognized. Accepted. The Nobel Prize is an attempt to answer that question. Legend says that Alfred Nobel funded the prize after reading an untimely published obituary about his life. Dynamite tycoon. He didn’t want to be remembered that way.  He didn’t like that that was how others viewed him.

Today, no one knows about Alfred Nobel and where his wealth originated from. They know about the Nobel Prize, and they think good things. Nobel used to mean dynamite, now it means excellence. The pinnacle of prestige.

Jon Fosse is a great writer. A bright seal of approval has been stamped onto his name. Nobel Laureate. Lauded by his peers and just the right amount of fame to go along with it. His writing will be immortalized in books crowded into shelves. Under each title will be his name and that seal. Winner of the Nobel Prize.

If that will suffice to be remembered, God only knows. 

-Jorge E. Fernandez De Mar