Nobel Prize-winning author · Essay Selection

Author: Song Zhaolin
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: Since 1901, the awarding of the Nobel Prize has been considered a "gift left to humanity by an individual to promote the cause of human progress and welfare, with the pure purpose of idealism." However, it has long been a mystery how to interpret and execute the will, leading to the claim that "the history of the Nobel Prize in Literature seems to be a history of continuously interpreting a will with ambiguous wording." This puzzle has puzzled the world for a century and has also caused the Swedish Academy difficulties for a century. Theoretically, the Literature Prize is awarded to those "who have created the best works with an idealistic in literature." After World War II, the selection of the Nobel Prize in Literature placed greater emphasis on "literary pioneers" and also believed that only a true depiction of the value and dilemmas of human existence could be considered a historically profound "idealistic." To date, there have been 101 Nobel Prize-winning authors; he will become a permanent award that stands the test of time. This book collects 85 prose works by 58 winning authors. The translators are mostly well-known translators, and many are experts in the study of their respective countries' literatures. Most of the translations are direct translations from the original texts, with only a small number being translated from other languages, making them highly authoritative.