November 12, 2016 will live long in the memory. Four days ago, the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded not to Philip Roth or Haruki Murakami, but to a singer-songwriter known for his poetic talent and the musical genre, folk rock, that he popularized in the sixties and developed throughout the seventies and beyond: Bob Dylan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Even now, the man who inspired the likes of Francis Cabrel and Guns n\u2019 Roses is proving his artistic genius with album after album. But does he deserve a Nobel Prize? It's hard to say. At Regard Libre<\/em>, No one has a fixed opinion on the matter. No one can be insensitive to the musical universe of this creator of modern rock, that's not the question. The question remains: by awarding their prestigious prize to Dylan, aren't the Swedish academics mixing things up?<\/p>\n\n\n\n We might think, for example, that while everyone listens to Bob Dylan, nobody reads him. So we shouldn't reward him with a major literary prize, while other well-known writers rightly await their turn. I'll go even further: if an artist writes a song to be a song, it will always be a song. We can marvel at the poetic aspect of many songs, but that doesn't make them poems, unless they are conceived from the outset as being poems at the same time - as is the case with Brel's repertoire, which we like to read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n