I read every Nobel Literature Prize winner from 1922 to 1928, and this is what I found

It is the fourth week of my reading challenge - to read all 120 winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature before the 2024 winner is announced.
In week four of the 120 Nobels reading challenge I introduce you to the Nobel Prizes of the turbulent twenties - from Benavente in 1922 to Undset in 1928.
You will discover some hidden connections to George Orwell, Animal Farm, and the famous Audrey Hepburn film from 1964, My Fair Lady.
More details, links to all texts and resources are available at my substack - jeffrich.substack.com. Free to join.
My 120 Nobels Challenge series on substack will show you how the Nobel Prize is a window onto on understanding the world history, world literature and geopolitics.
You can chat with me about the 120 Nobels Reading Challenge on the Burning Archive channel KZbin channel comments section and more exclusively at jeffrich.substack.com
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[@soutteruk1]

Everything falls apart, centre and periphery, eventually. Nothing is forever.

[@theburningarchive]

Indeed isn't there a Moby song about that? From the Bourne movies.

[@carvedouttastone]

Your.channel is blowing up now Rich. Well deserved

[@tarquinmidwinter2056]

What an interesting challenge! Kristin Lavransdatter has long been my favourite novel of any genre.

[@theburningarchive]

on my substack (jeffrich.substack.com) I did a 'audiobook' reading of the first chapter of the most recent translation - check it out if you have not already done so.

[@eligoitein6499]

bob dylan / oscar winner

[@theburningarchive]

You got it

[@michaelstahlberg9392]

Billy The Kid and Pat Garret?

[@bobbowser2876]

“Things Have Changed” from the film “Wonder Boys”

[@davidmatlock6410]

Great idea, interesting presentation, just subscribed

[@theburningarchive]

Thank you

[@Svetlana5-lingua]

Thank you for the video)Very informative, pleasant to listen to.

[@theburningarchive]

Thank you

[@weavebrain]

Very enjoyable. This run down triggered lots of memories for me. I had both GB Shaw’s Pygmalion and Saint Joan as set texts in high school in the 1970s. While concurrently covering the Weimar Republic in history class.

[@theburningarchive]

It is so interesting to compare the treatment of the 1920s in British, American and German television - say Downton Abbey, Great Gatsby and Babylon Berlin!. Thanks for the comment

[@Kafkaesque786]

Fantastic. Thank you

[@theburningarchive]

Thank you too!

[@nicholasadams1283]

Fascinating to hear about the lesser known winners. Thank you very much.

[@theburningarchive]

Thank you. I am so glad you said that!

[@ryanand154]

I read about William Faulkner reading to his cousin while they read to their dying cousin at the behest of their mother.

[@theburningarchive]

Great story. Faulkner is coming up on the series in 2 weeks I think!

[@liamhickey359]

Its alwayys amazed me that that colossus of cultural affairs Sir Les Patterson never won the Nobel for his lond and distinguished service to the arts.

[@MrUndersolo]

The Nobel has always been political, and your page and review proves as much. New sub!

[@margaretinsydney3856]

I've just come upon this video. Thank you, algorithm! What an interesting idea. I'll be fascinated to read your overall conclusions. I've picked up a number of these prize-winners over the years and thought they were, at best, Of Their Time. I have subscribed.😊

[@theburningarchive]

Many thanks. Do also check out my substack jeffrich.substack.com for some additional aspects of the challenge.

[@toinpituba6590]

Uma extraordinária maneira de falar da literatura, como sempre muito agradável. Uma invejável cultura! Acompanhando seus vídeos na medida do possível. Abraço fraterno do BraZil.

[@theburningarchive]

Muito obrigado. Me conte seus escritores brasileiros favoritos

[@toinpituba6590]

@@theburningarchive Dear Jeff, I am flattered by your interest, perhaps in the near future I will be able to participate more actively in your excellent interventions. My country's literature is extraordinary, rich, underestimated and unknown outside of it. Finding The Burning Archive was one of the best finds in recent times. I am a self-taught person, a voracious reader since early childhood. Despite being born in the interior of Brazil, I lived in Europe and Central America for more than 10 years. My area of ​​interest is my entire planet with everything that travels with it. I think it's a shame that the real pandemic is the cognitive dysfunction that leads even the most intelligent and capable to not look at others. Lucky for us we have some beacons like you to lessen the feeling of being alone. A fraternal hug from BraZil

[@kazuyetsochev9816]

This was a fantastic video! Thank you for sharing! I am looking forward to the next one and the answer to who is the 2nd nobel prize winner to also win an oscar.

[@theburningarchive]

Thank you

[@AndyBends]

bob dylan is the answer

[@fredwelf8650]

Thanks!

[@theburningarchive]

many thanks 🙏

[@AIainMConnachie]

Wonderful

[@theburningarchive]

Thank you

[@InfiniteText]

1955 Winner is my favourite of all the time. I'll stand by Laxness until I die. I really enjoyed your video, wow, I wish Shaw was still a household name.

[@theburningarchive]

Looking forward to discovering Laxness in a week or so

[@waynesmith3767]

Bob Dylan is the only other person than GBS to win both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize in Literature; quite a decline in both prizes.

[@theburningarchive]

You got it! I tend to agree with you on the merits.... that episode of the series is going to be hot!

[@boscodeoliveira5752]

it greatly elucidates the human nature of writers and philosophers . Just subscribed to the channel. As for the Nobel winner who also won an Academy Award, I know Bob Dylan, who controversially won the the Nobel prize for Literature in 2016, had won an Academy Award for Best Original Song (Things have Changed) for the movie Wonder Boys,

[@theburningarchive]

thank you 🥇for getting Bob Dylan

[@aurelius54]

Enjoyed this video- thanks. Could the Noble + Oscar winner be John Steinbeck?

[@fredwelf8650]

@@aurelius54 bob dylan

[@theburningarchive]

close but the answer is below

[@theburningarchive]

correct! 🥇

[@davedraycott5779]

In what way was the USA the ‘child’ of the Spanish Empire as it broke away from the British Empire?

[@theburningarchive]

Good question. I was being a bit cryptic but referring to Felipe Fernandez-Armesto's history of the USA, shaped by Spain as well as Britain You can watch my interview with Felipe here kzbin.info/www/bejne/bqvOlWN4lt1sjtE We discuss this issue but I can't recall timestamp

[@AndyBends]

where is your link to Bergson?

[@theburningarchive]

in my substack jeffrich.substack.com

[@vanitajaipuria3663]

🎉cormac Mc Carthy?

[@theburningarchive]

Close, but no... check the comments on the video. It is quite a surprise!

[@andyiswonderful]

I think the answer is Pearl S Buck.

[@theburningarchive]

I can see why you would think that, but it is a later winner. Peark Buck is coming up in next week's video though

[@alexashwell4468]

Are you a Kiwi? Chur.

[@theburningarchive]

Australian. Close

[@haydenwalton2766]

he's not one of those deck hids !