Gabriel Josopovici-Prediction

 

My inclusion of Gabriel Josopovici on this list comes down to two things:  The book ‘Contre-Jour’ (with it’s fantastic cover) on my shelf and his other book about modernism.  I’ve not read either of them but what I make my judgment on is the quotes on the back and it’s high praise indeed.  It’s not that his work is good that tips me off but it also the suggestion that he is moving in an interesting fashion.  He is one who not only writes well but also has a vision.  It strikes me that he purposeful writes European literature and knowing how the committee can be euro-centric this may be to his advantage.

  There may not seem to be much to base a prediction on but I think that in not reading Jospipovici’s books I can tell that he would be considered a candidate.  In this fashion he is a bit like Aberto Manguel whom I know little.  He’s a serious thinker of literature demonstrated in his book about modernism asking what happened to it?  So it is likely that he would bring that into his books.  Everything about ‘Contre-Jour’ screams high literature from the Pierre Bonnard painting to Josipovici’s name.  If he is, like the Guardian says, ‘one of the very best writers now at work in the English language’ than there is no reason why he cannot be a candidate for the Nobel Prize.