Bob Dylan says nothing about the Nobel. And neither attended the Swedish academy – the Public.en

Hours after the Swedish academy have given a surprising and controversial Nobel prize in Literature, Bob Dylan took the stage in Las Vegas for another concert. The first public appearance after the award was awaited with expectation, but about the Nobel prize winner, there were zero comments, account the is sent to Las Vegas newspaper The Guardian.

At The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, Bob Dylan barely spoke with the audience, tells the Guardian. And before the repeated request of more songs, the american musician made a brief encore, singing Why Try To Change Me Now Frank Sinatra.

in This Friday night, Dylan will be in Indio (California) for a further concert of his Never Ending Tour ["Tour" the real, initiated in the mid-1980s.

the silence of The Dylan inspired also to the Swedish Academy. In statements to the AFP, the administrative director, Odd Zschiedrich, told that the Swedish Academy spoke with the agent and responsible for the touring musician, but has been unable to speak with the winner of the Nobel prize, as it does with all distinguished.

according To Bob Neuwirth, musician and friend of the singer, in respect of the prizes and distinctions, the new Nobel Literature prize is discreet and “can not even thank you,” says the Washington Post.

If you choose not to accept the award, Dylan will not be the first to do so. In 1964, the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre refused the Nobel Literature prize, not getting, at the time, the 273 billion Swedish crowns prize.

Dylan became on Thursday the first north american to win the award since Toni Morrison in 1993. More relevant, however, is the fact that, after several years in which his name was advanced as a possible winner, the awarding of the Nobel prize Dylan serve as legimitação literary of the popular song, that the singer of Blowing in the wind is one of the greatest representatives. Not by chance, Sara Danius, the Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, in recognizing that the distinction of someone whose craft is of the songs may be controversial, he expressed the hope the Academy will not be criticized for the choice.

Technically, this is not the first time that a musician is awarded with the Nobel prize in Literature. In 1913, the indian Rabindranath Tagore received the distinction. Tagore, who, curiously, died in the year of the birth of Dylan, was not only a writer noted in the indian literature, as a novelist, poet and playwright, but also a painter of recognized merit, and a composer that wrote over two thousand songs in its 80 years of life. Bob Dylan, however, is the first Nobel Literature prize, whose craft focuses on a field outside the literary. This will explain not only the surprise with which the announcement of the prize was received, but also the controversy that has raged between those who defend and those who question the justice of the distinction.