News Summary

• László Krasznahorkai was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature this week.
• The award committee said the award was for his ‘compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art" But what ‘apocalyptic terror’?
• Where?
• Not in the real world as we know it, and we know what 'apocalypse' means.
• It was as though the prize committee had pinched that quote from a character in his book Satantango, who says, “We are living in apocalyptic times."
• But even in her world, no one takes her seriously because there is no apocalypse.