Read the following excerpt from William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech.

I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work-a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before.

According to Faulkner, who or what is the true recipient of the Nobel Prize?

Faulkner, himself

the human spirit

humanity as a whole

Faulkner's work

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Bozley

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26 November, 19:31

Read the following excerpt from William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech.

I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work-a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before.

According to Faulkner, who or what is the true recipient of the Nobel Prize?

Faulkner, himself

the human spirit

humanity as a whole

Faulkner's work

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Lola Tapia · Answer 1

According to Faulkner, the true recipient of the Nobel Prize is Faulkner's work.

He says it clearly in this excerpt - " I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work ... "

He believes that he shouldn't be the one accepting this award, but rather his own work which was born from his mind and somehow found its way onto his paper and became a legend.