GIANTS IN THEIR FIELD

A complete guide to Nobel Prizes in literature from Sully-Prudhomme to Derek Walcott (1901-1992), which can appeal to all readers as a source of documented facts and interesting anecdotes. It contains year-by-year summaries of literary events, parallel lives of laureates, concise biographies, lists of major works, and extensive tables in appendices (32pp.). 

“Brillante estudio ... con una documentación amplísima ... interesante e instructiva lectura, un instrumento de trabajo y un libro de consulta útil para los comparistas, investigadores, docentes y estudiantes universitarios.”-Louis Imperiale, Quaderni Ibero-Americani.

Inhalt
1;Table of Contents;6 2;Dedication;10 3;Acknowledgements;12 4;If a traveler comes to Florence;14 5;The Nobel Prizes in Literature, 1901-1992, and Related Events;40 6;Profiles of the Nobel Laureates and Selections of Their Works;226 6.1;Sully-Prudhomme;228 6.2;Theodor Mommsen;231 6.3;Bjornstjerne Bjornson;234 6.4;José Echegaray;237 6.5;Frédéric Mistral;240 6.6;Henryk Sienkiewicz;243 6.7;Giosuè Carducci;246 6.8;Rudyard Kipling;249 6.9;Rudolf Eucken;252 6.10;Selma Lagerlöf;255 6.11;Paul Heyse;258 6.12;Maurice Maeterlinck;261 6.13;Gerhart Hauptmann;264 6.14;Rabindranath Tagore;267 6.15;Romain Rolland;270 6.16;Verner von Heidenstam;273 6.17;Karl Gjellerup;276 6.18;Henrik Pontoppidan;279 6.19;Carl Spitteler;282 6.20;Knut Hamsun;285 6.21;Anatole France;288 6.22;Jacinto Benavente;291 6.23;W.B. Yeats;294 6.24;Wladyslaw Reymont;297 6.25;Bernard Shaw;300 6.26;Grazia Deledda;303 6.27;Henri Bergson;306 6.28;Sigrid Undset;309 6.29;Thomas Mann;312 6.30;Sinclair Lewis;315 6.31;Erik Karlfeldt;318 6.32;John Galsworthy;321 6.33;Ivan Bunin;324 6.34;Luigi Pirandello;327 6.35;Eugene O'Neill;330 6.36;Roger Martin du Gard;333 6.37;Pearl Buck;336 6.38;Frans Sillanpää;339 6.39;Johannes Jensen;342 6.40;Gabriela Mistral;345 6.41;Hermann Hesse;348 6.42;André Gide;351 6.43;T.S. Eliot;354 6.44;William Faulkner;357 6.45;Bertrand Russell;360 6.46;Pär Lagerkvist;363 6.47;François Mauriac;366 6.48;Winston Churchill;369 6.49;Ernest Hemingway;372 6.50;Halldór Laxness;375 6.51;Juan Ramón Jiménez;378 6.52;Albert Camus;381 6.53;Boris Pasternak;384 6.54;Salvatore Quasimodo;387 6.55;Saint-John Perse;390 6.56;Ivo Andric;393 6.57;John Steinbeck;396 6.58;George Seferis;399 6.59;Jean-Paul Sartre;402 6.60;Mikhail Sholokhov;405 6.61;S.Y. Agnon;408 6.62;Nelly Sachs;411 6.63;Miguel Angel Asturias;414 6.64;Yasunari Kawabata;417 6.65;Samuel Beckett;420 6.66;Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn;423 6.67;Pablo Neruda;426 6.68;Heinrich Böll;429 6.69;Patrick White;432 6.70;Eyvind Johnson;435 6.71;Harry Martinson;438 6.72;Eugenio Montale;441 6.73;Saul Bellow;444 6.74;Vicente Aleixandre;447 6.75;Isaac Bashevis Singer;450 6.76;Odysseus Elytis;453 6.77;Czeslaw Milosz;456 6.78;Elias Canetti;459 6.79;Gabriel García Márquez;462 6.80;William Golding;465 6.81;Jaroslav Seifert;468 6.82;Claude Simon;471 6.83;Wole Soyinka;474 6.84;Joseph Brodsky;477 6.85;Naguib Mahfouz;480 6.86;Camilo José Cela;483 6.87;Octavio Paz;486 6.88;Nadine Gordimer;489 6.89;Derek Walcott;492 7;Appendix;496 8;Selected Bibliography;533