...or rather, will be later in his career, Nathan Englander. The others mentioned at the top of this article--Pynchon, Roth, DeLilo et al--while prodigious and hugely talented, are too idiosyncratic and occasionally profane. They lack the largeness of vision a Nobel laureate should have.

If Pynchon lacks "largeness of vision," the phrase has no meaning.

So Joyce and Nabokov, two idiosyncratic and occasionally profane writers, didn't deserve the Nobels? Good, since they didn't get them.

And:

Nathan Englander?!

bec393:

...or rather, will be later in his career, Nathan Englander. The others mentioned at the top of this article--Pynchon, Roth, DeLilo et al--while prodigious and hugely talented, are too idiosyncratic and occasionally profane. They lack the largeness of vision a Nobel laureate should have.

are you a part-time critic aspiring to join the "elitist" club of self-titled literature connoisseurs? Nathan Englander?

too idiosyncratic and occasionally profane? What are we, the soap-in-your-mouth police?

largeness of vision? What is it, are you proposing laser vision-correction procedures? How about writing books?

You must mean Nathaniel West (posthumous, of course).

Sounds like somebody has an unbearable urge to bop you over the head.