Nobel Prize in Literature のーべるぶんがくしょう
Edition 17 (1919)
Literature awardInternational literature awardLifetime achievement award
Winners
1 peopleA sweeping epic by Carl Spitteler that explores the relationship between gods and humans on a mythic scale. Written between 1900 and 1905 and revised in 1910, it is known for reworking Greek mythology in a modern idiom.
A vast epic that layers the mythic world over the human one.
160 pages
epic poetryGreek mythologysymbolismgods and mortalsSwiss literature