Jelinek: I feel "desperate" when I win the prize.

6543817 October, the Swedish Academy Literature Award announced that the winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature was Alfred Jelinek, an Austrian woman writer, on the grounds that "her novels and plays have a musical rhythm, and her works reveal the social conventions and absurdity of her imprisonment with extraordinary passionate language."

After learning that he became the first Austrian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Jelinek was not as excited as people expected. Instead, she issued a statement on the 8th, officially announcing that she would not go to Stockholm to receive the prize. She cited two reasons: first, poor health; Second, she felt that she was not qualified to win this grand prize.

Jelinek said that she felt "not happy, but desperate" after learning that she had won such a lofty award. "I never thought I could win the Nobel Prize. Perhaps this prize should be awarded to another Austrian writer, Biegel Handke. " Jelinek doesn't think that the Nobel Prize she won is an "Austrian wreath", and she still keeps a complete distance from the government.

Although there are no more details about the reasons why Jelinek refused to win the Nobel Prize, it can be seen that Jelinek's reasons for refusing are similar to Sartre's. However, it will take time to test whether Jelinek can refuse to the end.

Sartre: Money and honor can't be bought.

Jean Paul Sartre, a French writer and philosopher, may be the only person who has consciously, voluntarily and sincerely rejected the Nobel Prize so far, because he needs to maintain his independent personality and free spirit. It can also be said that Sartre is one of the few people in the world who can't be bought with money and honor.

1964, when Sartre learned that he was nominated by the Nobel Prize jury and might win the Nobel Prize in Literature of that year, he immediately wrote to the jury, saying that he would refuse to accept the prize. However, the jury solemnly awarded Nobel Prize in Literature to Sartre because his works were full of thoughts, free spirit and the pursuit of truth, which had a long-term impact on our times.

However, Sartre's refusal is not empty talk. As soon as the news of winning the prize came out, he immediately drafted a statement that "writers should refuse to change their careers." In the same year1October 22nd, Sartre's publisher in Sweden appointed a representative to read the book in Stockholm.

"I'm sorry, this is a controversial thing; The bonus was decided to be awarded to me, but I refused. "

Why did Sartre reject the Nobel Prize? Simply put, there are two reasons. The personal reasons are as follows: "My refusal is not a hasty action. I always refuse official honors. This attitude comes from my view of the writer's works. A writer can express his attitude towards politics, society and literature only through his means, that is, written words. All the honors he can get will put pressure on his readers, which I think is not desirable. Whether I signed Jean Paul Sartre or Nobel Prize winner Jean Paul Sartre is by no means the same thing. "

The objective reasons are as follows: "The only possible struggle on the current cultural front is the coexistence of two cultures. I'm not saying that the two sides should hug each other. I clearly know that the communication between the two cultures must exist in the form of conflict, but this conflict should be carried out between people and cultures without the participation of institutions. Personally, I deeply feel the contradiction between the two cultures: these contradictions exist in me. Therefore, I can't accept any honor awarded by high-level cultural institutions in the East or the West, even though I fully understand the existence of these institutions. "

"Although all my sympathy tends to socialism, I still can't accept Lenin Prize, such as. I know very well that the Nobel Prize itself is not a literary prize of the western group, but it has actually become such a literary prize, and some things may not be decided by the members of the Swedish Academy of Literature. Therefore, writers should refuse to be transformed into institutions, even in the form of accepting such a respectable honor as the Nobel Prize. "

As Sartre refused the Nobel Prize, Anders Austrin, then the permanent secretary of the Faculty of Arts of Sweden University, issued a statement on behalf of the Faculty of Arts: The honorary winner has said that he does not want to accept the Nobel Prize, but his refusal has not changed the validity of this award in the slightest. But in this case, the college can only announce that the award ceremony cannot be held.