Hi,
warum hat Franz Kafka nie den Literaturnobelpreis bekommen? Ist er dafür jemals vorgeschlagen worden? Ist es möglich, den Nobelpreis posthum zu vergeben?
Gruß,
Francesco
Hallo Francesco,
die nachfolgende Passage aus dem unten genannten link wird sicher hilfreich sein, Deine Frage des „warum nicht“ einer Nominierung zu klären. Es gibt jedoch durchaus Beispiele, dass der Nobelpreis posthum verliehen wurde.
Näheres dazu lässt sich u.U. bei Studium des links in Erfahrung bringen. In der Kürze geht das sicher nicht, denn wie Du sehen wirst, sind die Vergaberichtlinien doch recht umfangreich.
"…Sometimes the complaining of omissions has been anachronistic. Among those missing, critics have found Proust, Kafka, Rilke, Musil, Cavafy, Mandelstam, Garcia Lorca, and Pessoa. This list, if it had any chronological justification, would undeniably suggest serious failure. But the main works of Kafka, Cavafy, and Pessoa were not published until after their deaths and the true dimensions of Mandelstam’s poetry were revealed above all in the unpublished poems that his wife saved from extinction and gave to the world long after he had perished in his Siberian exile. In the other cases there was much too brief a period of time between the publication of the author’s most deserving work and his death for a prize to have been possible. Thus, Proust achieved notoriety in 1919 by the Goncourt Prize for the second part of A la recherche du temps perdu but less than three years later he was dead. The same short time of reaction was offered by Rilke’s Duineser Elegien and García Lorca’s plays. Musil’s significance did not appear outside a narrow circle of connoisseurs until more than a decade after his death in 1942. He belonged, as was pointed out by a critic (Theodor Ziolkowski), to the category of authors who „on closer examination … exclude themselves…“
Gruss
Eve*