Bob Dylan - Nobel Lecture in Literature, 2016 (text + audio)

BOB DYLAN (b. Robert Allen Zimmerman, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, artist and writer, influential in popular music and culture for more than five decades.  He was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."

This torrent consists of the text and audio of Dylan's Nobel Lecture, recorded 4 June 2017 in Los Angeles.

In the 26-minute recording, Dylan discusses at length three works "that have stuck with me ever since I read them way back in grammar school": Moby Dick (a reminder that we "see only the surfaces of things"), All Quiet on the Western Front (in which "death is everywhere, nothing else is possible"), and Homer's The Odyssey, a "strange, adventurous tale" he likens to such modern pop songs as Simon and Garfunkel's "Homeward Bound".  He concludes that Shakespeare's words were meant to be spoken, "just as lyrics in songs are meant to be sung, not read on a page."

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