This paper analyzes what may be called Olympic Internationalism as a framework for comparing literatures in the early twentieth century. Specifically, it analyzes the practice of tabulating information about the Nobel Prize—in the Swedish Academy, the international press, and repositories of general knowledge such as encyclopedias—and argues that the international circulation of such “thin knowledge” (Orsini) formed the very basis for that framework of comparison. This, it is further argued, played a crucial role in shaping the international perception of what world literature is and in making the Nobel Prize in Literature what it is: a globally acknowledged “world prize.”

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诺贝尔荣誉榜

本文分析了所谓的奥林匹克国际主义，以此作为比较 20 世纪初文学的框架。具体来说，它分析了在瑞典学院、国际媒体和百科全书等一般知识库中对诺贝尔奖信息进行制表的做法，并认为这种“薄知识”（奥尔西尼）的国际流通形成了非常该比较框架的基础。进一步认为，这在塑造国际对世界文学的看法以及使诺贝尔文学奖成为全球公认的“世界奖”方面发挥了关键作用。