186 books
—
9 voters
Nobel Prize
Books by authors who have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
“
Nobelpriset påminner oss om att sann heder aldrig formas av makt, popularitet eller förutsägelser. Det oväntade kan segra — precis som när en venezuelansk oppositionsledare reste sig över världens mest dominerande gestalt, Donald Trump.
”
―
―
“
We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical spirit, the engine of progress, would not even exist. Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life. When we look in fiction for what is missing in life, we are saying, with no need to say it or even to know it, that life as it is does not satisfy our thirst for the absolute – the foundation of the human condition – and should be better.
...more
”
―
―
![Rabindranath Tagore's contemporary meaning and significance - Amartya Sen [1 / 3]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6z9ic-dMip8/default.jpg)
Non basta una vita intera per leggere tutti i libri di questo mondo, ma vale la pena di consider…more
28 members,
last active 2 years ago
