tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9540261.post6632028608215570267..comments2023-03-24T03:08:07.138-07:00Comments on Life, with the dull bits cut out.: “Cher Academy, Va te faire foutre. Jean Luc”.dizzydenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14346013529127682931noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9540261.post-3614328157043758972010-11-15T18:17:31.956-08:002010-11-15T18:17:31.956-08:00When Camus won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1...When Camus won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1957, Sartre was pissed. Royally so. <br /><br />When, in 1964, Sartre finally got his own Nobel, he decided to one-up his confrère-in-existentialism by refusing to go to Stockholm to pick up the award.<br /><br />Leave it to André Breton, representing an earlier era of French intellectual activism, to set Sartre straight. In a telegram, Breton wrote, "My dear Jean-Paul. The point is not to refuse the Nobel Prize. The point is to never have deserved it."howardrodmannoreply@blogger.com