[HN Gopher] Olga Tokarczuk - Nobel Lecture - Literature Prize 2018
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       Olga Tokarczuk - Nobel Lecture - Literature Prize 2018
        
       Author : MaysonL
       Score  : 56 points
       Date   : 2022-08-06 09:25 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | Adiqq wrote:
       | I don't like her attitude:
       | https://notesfrompoland.com/2022/07/19/i-write-for-intellige... .
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       | I can agree that for some people it might be hard to grasp more
       | complex knowledge, but she is novel writer. She might be good
       | writer, but she doesn't have to be obscene about it, like she got
       | her Nobel prize for peer-reviewed math/physics/CS thesis. It will
       | be important for some, but most won't care, no matter how
       | important someone tries to be.
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       | There are always people better than us at something, we might be
       | masters in one or few things, but we should appreciate people
       | that try to improve themselves and help them, instead of telling
       | them to do something simpler. It's better to try and fail, if
       | risk is low/none, rather than do nothing or something that
       | doesn't develops us. There's no danger in reading her books, at
       | worst case someone might get bored. However she assumes that you
       | need exceptional intelligence to understand Rick...her books.
        
         | Q6T46nT668w6i3m wrote:
         | She's a novelist that wants to write challenging novels to
         | progress or push the medium. If they are read by every Tom,
         | Dick and Harry then she's failed. I don't understand why this
         | is obscene.
        
           | Adiqq wrote:
           | I might be in this case strict on being humble, but you won't
           | hear that kind of comment from person that tries to share
           | something good with world. Why should we judge good novelist
           | based on being too novel to understand for average person?
           | Should I call myself better than others, because some don't
           | know Kubernetes? That would be poor way to judge in general
           | and for me, it's not ok to gatekeep knowledge in any way.
        
         | fenring wrote:
         | not sure if this is lost in translation or this is difference
         | in how we understand her words, but she doesn't want to limit
         | her books to some kind of "chosen" people, it's more that she
         | is against over simplifications - for the sake of popularity
         | over quality. So she is writing assuming that reader has some
         | background, if not - to encourage they to gain some and then
         | read her novels with full understanding and pleasure.
        
         | tester756 wrote:
         | I have mixed feelings about it
         | 
         | On one hand I do understand that not everyone will read her
         | masterpieces 'correctly'
         | 
         | and she's straight about it that entry level is not low and
         | that's fine, it works the same way with e.g "Fermat's Last
         | Theorem proof" - you cannot just wake up, start reading it and
         | understand it (or even recognize symbols)
         | 
         | But on the other hand she's pretty snarky about it, but she's
         | Polish, so it is in genes I guess :)
        
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