Distinction of Bob Dylan was “a surprise on” News Journal

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editor Francisco Valley, the Clock of Water, which he published in two volumes the poetry of Bob Dylan, from 1962 to 2001, said that the award of the Nobel prize to the poet and songwriter was “a surprise on”.

“it Was a surprise relative, because there were other writers, but Bob Dylan is a great poet who knew how to enter the poetry in the musical traditions of the north-american. Particularly in the pop and folk”, said to the agency Lusa Francisco Valley.

To the editor, this distinction of the poet and the american composer “only reveals a capacity upgrade of the Swedish Academy to choose an author of songs, but that is a great poet.”

Bob Dylan “is, in fact, inserted, and very well, in the poetic tradition the anglo-saxon, with clear, direct influences of poets/singers such as Leonard Cohen, more immediate, and others too, but throughout the great north american poetry, from Walt Whitman to John Ashbery is very much present in the poetry of Dylan” kick Francisco Valley.

The Clock Water published in 2004 1.º volume of the poetry of Bob Dylan, “Songs I”, covering the period from 1962 to 1973 and, in 2008, the 2.º, “Songs II”, which brings together poetry from 1974 to 2001, in a translation to Portuguese of Angelina Barbosa and Pedro Serrano.

The two volumes are available in the market, as it has not yet timed out, said the editor.

The Nobel Prize in Literature this year was awarded to Bob Dylan, for having created new forms of expression poetic in the framework of the great tradition of american music, as announced today the Swedish Academy.

in A short interview after announcing the winner, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, Sara Danius, explained that Bob Dylan deserved the award for being “a great poet in the great tradition of poetic English”.

“It embodies that tradition,” said the responsible, pointing out that 54 years ago that the singer, poet and composer reinvents itself, creating new identities.

Asked to choose a song emblematic of the now Nobel Literature prize, Sara Darius said that the album “Blonde on Blonde”, 1966, “is an extraordinary example of his brilliant way of rhyme and of his thought pictorial”.

In Portugal, in addition to the work record, is also published by Ulisseia, in 2005, the first volume of the autobiography of Bob Dylan, “Chronicles”.