Friday, April 15, 2011

The American Fear of Literature

Sinclair Lewis' Nobel Prize speech from 1930.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1930/lewis-lecture.html

Lewis was the first American to win the Nobel Prize.
"...in America most of us - not readers alone but even writers - are still afraid of any literature which is not a glorification of everything American, a glorification of our faults as well as our virtues."

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