Get the best deal by comparing prices from over 100,000 booksellers. Boeken van elfriede jelinek koop je eenvoudig online bij. Winters journey, by elfriede jelinek deutsches theater berlin. As bernhard she is at the same time a highly acclaimed writer especially abroad and proverbial beelzebub abused for her critical views especially in austria. The most popular work from provocative austrian nobel laureate elfriede jelinek, the piano teacher is a searing portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires.
A darkly comical satire on the sex lives of the austrian bourgeoisie. Elfriede jelinek, who started learning the piano when she was five years old and later studied various instruments, has been haunted by this song cycle since her childhood. Elfriede jelinek is an austrian playwright and novelist. Listening to it rather than reading it made it seem fresh and unfamiliar partly because the narrator, deidre rubinstein, has performed the text rather than narrated it, and partly because the characters names, pronounced. Yana ross very inventively transformed a solidmonologue text into an epic play. Books by elfriede jelinek author of the piano teacher. Translated from the german by michael hulse from the 1980 german edition. Elfriede jelinek author of the piano teacher goodreads. In her avowedly autobiographical novel the piano teacher, the austrian author elfriede jelinek has her alter ego erika kohut engage in a variety of voyeuristic activities.
The piano teacher serpents tail classics by jelinek, elfriede and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Franz schubert composed his winter journey in 1827, a year before his. The following entry presents an overview of jelineks career through 2002. Elfriede jelinek, author of gravitys rainbow, on librarything librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers home groups talk zeitgeist. She was awarded the nobel prize in literature in 2004 for her musical flow of voices and countervoices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of societys cliches and their subjugating power. These days i try to fit books from my insurmountable tbr into reading challenges but this time, i wanted to fit an australian author into a nonaustralian setting. Elfriede jelinek 1946 austrian novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. With this comes an inability or unwillingness to tolerate any irregularities of form, a prissy quibbling over capital letters. It is a prosetext that is a performance piece it has frequently been staged over the past fifteen years. By necessity, this focus presents less than half of jelineks works.
However, it has also led to some amazing discovery which included this book, winter journey. A play by the nobel laureate elfriede jelinek that dissects the life and legend of jacqueline kennedy onassis will have its north american premiere this winter at the new off broadway home of the. Franz schubert composed his winter journey in 1827, a year before his premature death. Philip roth says the novel is dead, but it would be more accurate to say the audience is dead were all just. In the process of addressing these, she has created one of her most personal and touching works ever. She studied music at the vienna conservatory and then studied drama and art history at the university of vienna. Wonderful, wonderful times 1990 by elfriede jelinek four bored teenagers plan a brutal gratuitous act as an expression of contempt for the mediocrity of everyday life in austria. There was considerable tension between her parents, and her father was interned in a mental institution. Her not all her is, as the subtitle has it, a piece onwith robert walser, as author elfriede jelinek presents a short, dense text that is both an homage to and inspired by the peculiar swiss master. Originally published in german in 1989, it was translated into english in 1992 by michael hulse. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. Just like a musical stretto, winter s journey summons with formidable clarity and almost frightening density all the themes that have occupied elfriede jelinek in the years and centuries gone by.
Jelinek wants to make us see how the ideas about sexual relations, consumer products, high culture and winter sport that we get from the dominant ideology are all there to reinforce the abusive power of rich over poor, strong over weak, industry over nature, and men over women that go together in her view with modern. How to read elfriede jelinek from the july 19, 2007 issue. Attended the university of vienna and vienna conservatory of music, 1960s. She was awarded the nobel prize for literature in 2004.
Charges by elfriede jelinek world literature today. Brigitte subordinates her feelings and goes for heinz, a young, plump, upandcoming businessman. Grove press 2 18 0 summary the most popular work from provocative austrian nobel laureate elfriede jelinek, the piano teacher is a searing portrait of a woman bound between a. The setting is an idyllic alpine village where a womens underwear factory nestles in the woods. Elfriede jelinek elfriede jelinek used books, rare books and new books. What is killing the novel is peoples growing dependence on feelgood fiction, fantasy and nonfiction. Winters journey, by elfriede jelinek, director andreas kriegenburg, cast. Jelinek studied music intensively from an early age. Two factory workers, brigitte and paula, dream and talk about finding happiness, a comfortable home and a good man. Tense, horrific, sad and emotional, winter journey is an exceptional historical fiction novel which i thoroughly enjoyed. And the fact, that we have such a hard time admitting it is all the more reason for this book exist and be read.
The book s german subtitle, ein unterhaltungsroman meaning a light, entertaining novel was evidently intended to mislead those who would be. The austrian nobel laureate published this important novel in 1983 and it. A stranger to the world and to her own life, elfriede jelinek follows the footsteps of the wanderer in franz schuberts winterreisewinter journey. Winterreise winter journey franz schubert composed his winter journey in 1827, a year before his premature death. Poems and prose appeared in anthologies and literary magazines before her first book. Describes a book or dust jacket that has the complete text pages including those with maps or plates but may lack endpapers, halftitle, etc. Recipient of the 2004 nobel prize for literature, elfriede jelinek is an austrian poet, playwright, and novelist. Lust tells the story of hermann, a manager of a paper mill, and his wife, gerti, whom he abuses sexually on a daily basis. Wonderful, wonderful times by elfriede jelinek and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Elbphilharmonie hamburg kleiner saal winter journeys. Winters journey artforum publisher vydavatelstvo artforum. Elfriede jelinek adopts the narrative structure, setting, and themes of aeschyluss suppliant women for charges, a drama that.
Elfriede jelineks life leading up to her nobel prize. The piano teacher by elfriede jelinek sophie mackintosh when i thought about what books mean the most to me i thought i would probably pick one that revealed some kind of essential humanity, a book that reminds me of what its like to love and. Winter journey, by diane armstrong, read by deidre. In a biting polemic, she attacked the inhuman asylum policy of the affluent european countries such as austria, where some refugees are naturalized immediately while others, whose lives are. Imagination of the balkans in the travel literature of austrian writer peter handke. Vinterrejse winter journey is based on the austrian novelist and playwright elfriede jelineks book winterreise from 2010. Elfriede jelinek s most popular book is the piano teacher.
Upon winning the nobel prize in literature in 2004, elfriede jelinek, an austrian author not widely read outside of her home country, suggested modestly that her fellow. First published as a serial in the dark blue 187172, the story is narrated by a young woman preyed upon by a female vampire named carmilla, later revealed to be mircalla, countess karnstein carmilla is an anagram of. The books german subtitle, ein unterhaltungsroman meaning a light, entertaining novel was evidently intended to mislead those. I read winter journey back in 2006, but i didnt remember this when i picked up the audio book at the library. How to read elfriede jelinek by tim parks the new york. Jelinek received her education in vienna, where the combination of her academic studies with a.
They realise that their quest will be as hard as work at the factory. Judith hofmann, annette paulmann, maria schrader, anita vulesica, susanne wolff. Elfriede jelinek was born at murzzuschlagstyria on october 20, 1946 and. Elfriede jelinek 1946 elfriede jelinek is the younger counterpart of austrian playwright thomas bernhard. Erika kohut is a piano teacher at the prestigious and formal vienna conservatory, who still lives with her domineering and possessive mother. She pays to sit in a booth at a peep show, smells a tissue into which the man before her has masturbated, and watches attentively as the girls on. Winters journey a stranger in the world and to life itself, elfriede jelinek s latest novel follows the trail of the traveller from franz schuberts winters journey. First published in germany in 1975, this novel by nobel prizewinner elfriede jelinek is the story of two women trying to improve their lives through the lives of their men. She graduated from the vienna conservatory and studied theater. Just like a musical stretto, winters journey summons with formidable. I have come across the very same relationship patterns in the u. Elfriede jelinek has 110 books on goodreads with 38608 ratings. It was recommended to me and i pass the recommendation forward. Lust is a novel by austrian author elfriede jelinek.
A stranger in the world and to life itself, elfriede jelineks latest novel. New german dramatic art authors jelinek, elfriede goetheinstitut. Elfriede jelinek is an austrian playwright and novelist, best known for her novel, the piano teacher. Elfriede jelinek, austrian novelist and playwright noted for her controversial works on gender relations, female sexuality, and popular culture. That was a terrible exercise as it means ive added at least a dozen books to my tbr. She is a writer and actress, known for the piano teacher 2001, malina 1991 and bambiland 2008. Philip roth says the novel is dead, but it would be more accurate to say the audience is dead were all just too polite to mention it.
Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. Elfriede jelinek creates a chilling and depressing story of four more to less disaffected youth in vienna toward the end. Winter journey is aussie author diane armstrongs debut novel, and although fictional, was inspired by a true incident which took place in poland in 1941. Brigitte, a seamstress in an undergarment factory, sees heinz as her ticket out of life as a drudge, and sets about attracting his interest with a new dye in her hair and a.
Elfriede jelineks most popular book is the piano teacher. Elfriede jelinek biography famous people from vienna. Carmilla is an 1872 gothic novella by irish author joseph sheridan le fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating bram stokers dracula 1897 by 26 years. Elfriede jelineks play is a blistering indictment of european asylum policy, and the indifference or hostility of some europeans. Her novel the piano teacher was the basis for the 2001 film of the same title by austrian director michael haneke, starring isabelle huppert as the.
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