I read every Nobel Literature Prize winner from 1929 to 1936, and this is what I found

It is the fifth week of my reading challenge - to read all 120 winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature before the 2024 winner is announced.
In week five of the 120 Nobels reading challenge I introduce you to the Nobel Prizes of the 1930s - years of depression, demons and dread - from Thomas Mann in 1929 to Eugene O'Neill in 1936.
You will discover the intriguing stories of the only dead man to win the Nobel Prize and the way that Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night came to the stage.
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[@weavebrain]

Great job! This is a unique way of integrating history and culture. Out this list of winners, I only read Thomas Mann so this adds a whole bunch of authors to my potential future reading list. Also, thanks for reminding me about the Visconti film, I’m going to rent it this week 🙏🏻

[@theburningarchive]

Thank you. It is such an iconic film. I remember screening at the arthouse conemas all the time in the early 1980s

[@Nopenotme1337]

Thank you for the videos, love the format and the topics covered.

[@theburningarchive]

thank you so much

[@Ged-k7w]

Good brief summary....injoyed ...

[@theburningarchive]

thank you

[@gavleopardi70]

Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Juan Rulfo, Thomas Hardy, Robert Musil, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, Leo Tolstoy, Henrik Ibsen, James Joyce, Hermann Broch, Fernando Pessoa, Georg Trakl, Rainer Marie Rilke, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italo Svevo, Joseph Roth, Israel Josua Singer, DH Lawrence, Hans Fallada, Miroslav Krleza, Machado De Assis, Natsume Soseki, Shimizaki Toson, Karl Kraus, Ernesto Sabato, Jorge Luis Borges, Arthur Miller, Mikhail Bulgakov, Sherwood Anderson, Friedrich Durrenmatt, Karel Capek, Miroslav Holub, Vasko Popa, Umberto Saba, Horacio Quiroga, Miguel De Unamuno, Marguerite Yourcenar….I could go on… the greatest writers never won this prize and I would recommend you read each one…

[@weavebrain]

Agreed, but I’m not sure Jeff’s intention was to focus on literary merit alone👍

[@Manfred-nj8vz]

May I add just one more name? Nikos Kazantzakis.

[@theburningarchive]

So true... and I try to work them into the stories as I go along.... That might be next year's project... the 50 greatest writers who did not the Nobel Prize?

[@moj1338]

@@gavleopardi70 Great list, and these are some of the great writers of the global north. There are many more from other parts of the world who also were never acknowledged and still are not.

[@theburningarchive]

very true. I will have to talk about them in another series.... but I have to finish this one first!