The singer and american songwriter Bob Dylan, whose poetic texts have influenced two generations of artists in the world, has received on Thursday the Nobel prize for literature, a bold and controversial.
Robert Allen Zimmerman, alias Bob Dylan, age 75, was rewarded “for having created in the framework of the great tradition of american music, new modes of poetic expression,” announced the general secretary of the Swedish Academy, Sara Danius.
The jury deliberations remain secret for 50 years, but Sara Danius has attempted shortly after the announcement to defuse the controversy emerging, and to justify the choice of Dylan at the expense of novelists or poets, some are waiting for the price for years.
“Bob Dylan wrote a poem for the ear, which must be ranted. If we think of the ancient Greeks, Sappho, Homer, they were written as poetry to say, preferably with instruments,” she argued, ensuring that a “great unity” had presided over the vote of the academicians.
“He is extremely gifted for the rhyme. This is a sampler of the literary”, she added.
The announcement was greeted by the cheers of the assistance under the rha of the Academy at Stockholm, leaving dumbfounded the commentators used to see crowned the prosateurs established.
Among the long-standing favourites, Salman Rushdie, has boasted on Twitter, “an excellent choice”, calling it “a brilliant heir to the tradition of the bards”, the American Joyce Carol Oates praising his “literary texts, in the deepest sense”.
His former partner Joan Baez, with whom Dylan had continued to collaborate after their separation in 1965, has hailed “a new step towards immortality” of the singer.
“From my repertoire that stretches over 60 years, no song has been as moving and only worth as much the money in its depth, its darkness, its mystery, its beauty and its humour, as those of Bob,” wrote the folk singer on Facebook.
on the side of The critics, many on the social networks, Scot Irvin Welsh, author of Trainspotting”, mocked a prize awarded by “hippies senile”.
- the living Legend -
With its folk-rock, literate, his dark glasses and his voice rough, Bob Dylan is past the troubadour folk at the dawn of the sixties to the superstar decorated in 2012 by u.s. president Barack Obama, who was then told “big fan” of the musician and was once again praised Thursday on Twitter: “Congratulations to one of my favorite poets, Bob Dylan, the Nobel absolutely deserved”.
Robert Allen Zimmerman, has always followed his own path of musical genius.
In 1959, a student at the University of Minneapolis, he discovers the pioneers of blues, country, and folk: Robert Johnson, Hank Williams and, especially, Woody Guthrie. At this time, he adopted the stage name of Bob Dylan.
Abandoning the studies, he moved to New York in 1961. The breakthrough occurs in 1963, with the album “the Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan” and his two titles folk protest: “Blowin’ in the Wind”, which became an anthem against the war in Vietnam, and “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.”
In 1963, he participated in the March on Washington around Martin Luther King. At the end of the 1970s, the unpredictable rebel discovers christianity and rout a party of his fans.
- ‘inspiration ‘ idealistic’ –
“Like A Rolling Stone”, the grandson of Russian jewish immigrants born in Duluth (Minnesota) continues to walk his harmonica and his guitar to the four corners of the planet for a tour called “Without end”. At the time of occur Thursday night in Las Vegas (west of Usa), he had not yet responded to the consecration of literature.
It was released in may his 37th studio album, “Fallen Angels”, where he performs american standards popularized by Frank Sinatra.
the First musician honored by the Academy since the creation of the award in 1901, its name as that of the Canadian Leonard Cohen was coming back from time to time in speculations about Nobel prize, but never be taken seriously.
In his will, Alfred Nobel dictates reward “the author of the literary work the most remarkable of inspiration idealist”.
This is not the first time that the Academy surprises. In 1953, she was awarded the Nobel prize for literature to the british statesman Winston Churchill.
14/10/2016 08:32:26 – Stockholm (AFP) – © 2016 AFP
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