E 'FASCIST NOBEL ... NOTHING! BEAUTIFUL DEMOCRACY ...
Rome, June 22 (Adnkronos) - Nothing Nobel Prize for Literature in Ezra Pound (1885-1972) because it was compromised with the fascist regime. The American poet - who lived in Italy for many years, admired Benito Mussolini and died in Venice - was nominated for the prestigious award in 1959 by writer Johannes Edfelt in his capacity as president of the Pen Club of Sweden. But the Nobel Committee did not like that name, 'heavy', so that its president Anders Osterling, got rid of Pound's looking like the candidate, while not the most in terms of American prisoner in an insane asylum after being sentenced for collaborating fascist, had However, guilty, in his work,''the propagation of ideas which are definitely contrary to the spirit of the Nobel Prize.''
to disclose the rejection of Pound is an article of Professor Henry Tiozzo, professor of Italian literature at the University of Goteborg, published in the new issue of the magazine ' Belphegor ', who had access to the unpublished final report of the Commission meeting of September 14, 1959 Nobel a permit due to the permanent secretary of the Academy of Sweden.
For events relating to the Nobel Prize in 1959, surprisingly won by the poet Salvatore Quasimodo, the private records of the Swedish Academy was made accessible only from 1 January. At that same meeting in which he was excluded Pound writes Tiozzo, were also rejoice British writer EM Forster in two rows for the 'great age' (the author of 'A Passage to India' and 'Room with a View' was then eighty but he would live until 1970) and the French writer André Malraux, the candidate supported Osterling,''one of the most interesting, but unfortunately left behind from having influenced the literature of invention''
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