Listen to Bob Dylan’s Full Nobel Prize Lecture

Months after initially being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Bob Dylan has finally delivered his Nobel lecture (a pre-requisite for the $900,000 prize money that comes with the award). Dylan speaks for almost a half-hour, with a gentle piano playing in the background. He begins with an anecdote about Buddy Holly, and the immediate kinship he felt to the singer-songwriter when he first heard his music, before going on to talk about the “devices and techniques” associated with folk music that he would go on to learn. He also breaks down three books that he views indelible: Moby Dick, All Quiet On the Western Front, and The Odyssey. Listen to the full thing below. While Dylan was awarded the Nobel in October 2016, it wasn’t until this past March that he finally arranged to accept the prize in person.

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