What Is More Important- Art Or Integrity?
by R.E. Prindle http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=104343 Curator Baruch Tenembaum on the 150th birthday of the Norwgian novelist, Knut Hamsun, asked the above question. What is more important- art or integrity. A difficult if not a trick question. One must ask the question what is art and what is integrity and who is asking it? Mr. Tenembaum is the curator of the Raoul Wallenberg Foundation. Obviously a Jewish outfit. One might think the occasion of his asking was to comment on Elie Wiesel (assumed name) and his so-called autobiography, Night, which has been proven to have been falsified by the author. In that case I would have thought integrity was more important than art. If art only was involved Wiesel should have called his book a novel and avoided the integrity charge. But no, Mr. Tenembaum is discussing Knut Hamsun, the Norwegian novelist, but he is not questioning the quality of the art of this Nobel Prize winner. One imagines that his question concedes the qualit
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