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Ursprungligen postat av BradDourif
Jorge Luis Borges var liberal, å ur många aspekter också konservativ, T. S. Eliot var en ordentligt konservativ gammal stöt, å Ezra Pound och d'Annunzio var fascister (även Marinetti, så klart, men dennes litterära kvaliteter kan ju diskuteras).
Borges fick förmodligen inte Nobelpriset p.g.a. att han ansågs ha fel åsikter:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature
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"---Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges was nominated for the Prize several times but, as Edwin Williamson, Borges's biographer, states, the Academy did not award it to him, most likely because of his support of certain Argentine and Chilean right-wing military dictators, including Pinochet, which, according to Tóibín's review of Williamson's Borges: A Life, had complex social and personal contexts.[40] Borges' failure to win the Nobel Prize for his support of these right-wing dictators contrasts with the Committee honoring writers who openly supported controversial left-wing dictatorships, including Joseph Stalin, in the case of Sartre and Neruda.---"