The Swedish Academy is like a boring tv soap
In the beginning it was fun with the fraction in the Academy, the real-life soap operas tend to be entertaining, especially when they hold intrigue, money, treachery, knives in backs, the pride and slamming doors.
But after a while it becomes annoying, just like såporna on the tv. We know that Horace says things that the entire nation is expected to horrified. We know that Kulturprofilen was Evil and freeloaders on the Academy’s reputation. We know that Sara Danius is muted and dignified, she is wearing its victim with its head held high, a skilled Qvinna who tried to do his duty and see how it went!
Around the spectacle aspect Horaces embittered ex, dressed in black as Magica de Hex, and to the strains of opera, wielding her wand with curses and complaints against her ex–husband and the institution he is so happy to belong to.
A lot of kulturredaktörer jerks around like the commentators on the game of football. They are worried, oh so worried! What happens with the Swedish culture? The nation’s reputation!
It says a lot about the spirit of the times. The old-fashioned veneration for the crown-is back. At the Academy’s annual meeting december 20, curve the so-called snillena literally the back of the crown. Formal dress code is enforced.
Maybe have the reverence never been away. But over a period tagged the not, underdånigheten was not officially ideal.
Humility is dancing the foxtrot with fineness. About once every ten years occurs in the globalised economy, a börsbubbla then a lot of people make sudden fortunes and want to take the step up in the noble and traditional world: collecting art, eating with knife and fork, drive a Bentley, and so on.
the Swedish Academy belonged to finhetens superstructure. It has been depicted as the guarantor of the written books and research on literature in our country. ”Genius and taste”. But almost all our great writers have stood outside and not even been friends to The eighteen that now is Tredderton, in reality, even fewer.
the Ivar Lo–Johansson, Vilhelm Moberg, Lars Gustafsson, Sven Lindqvist, Jan Myrdal, the PO Enquist. The list can be long.
They wrote the epoch-making literature without having with the Academy to do except maybe a scholarship now and then. The money was certainly welcome, but they had written in all cases.
Now, the blasted fineness in front of our eyes. It will be interesting to see what it may mean for literature and the climate in our country.
