For others, the pathos of what seems to be an annual exercise in disappointment has become darkly comical: It's a beautiful, perfect arc that begins with, "Is this the year Haruki Murakami receives the Nobel Prize?" and invariably ends with him getting passed over.
Для других же грустный пафос таких вот ежегодных разочарований приобрел оттенок мрачного юмора: