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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

The whole book is feeling a bit pretentious. Is that common for Nobel winning authors?

That hasn't been my experience. Mostly Nobel winners novels tend to pacifist political stands - so horrors of war, oppression, torture seem to abound so I guess there might be a tendency to that sort of heavy handedness. Still, the Nobel is usually awarded for a body of works and not a single book - so you may have just picked up one of the authors' sucky books - or maybe just a poor translation.

(I'm partial to Booker prize winners myself)