Elfriede Jelinek - Böcker

»Elfriede Jelinek skriver så att man hör smärtan som ett dunkande hjärta under den kallhamrade texten.« | Synnöve Clason, SvD Erika Kohut är 36 år men bor ännu med sin mor - som övervakar varje steg dottern tar. Det har hon gjort sedan Erika var b...

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Fyra ungdomar, ett syskonpar och deras vänner. Rotlösa, känslokalla. Hungern efter värme, närhet och kärlek är så stor att den inte kan uttryckas med ord. Och den driver ut dem i det meningslösa: till våldet. Närmast som tidsfördriv slår de ner en...

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»Det bästa Jelinek skrivit sedan Nobelpriset.« | Horace Engdah l Elfriede Jelineks kritikerrosade läsdrama Vinterresa [ Winterreise , 2011] utgår ifrån Franz Schuberts och Wilhelm Mu llers romantiska sångcykel med samma titel och är en lika underh...

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One of Elena Ferrante's Top 40 Best Books by Women Erika Kohut teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory by day. By night she trawls the city's porn shows while her mother, whom she loves and hates in equal measure, waits up for her. Into this emot...

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The setting is an idyllic Alpine village where a woman's underwear factory nestles in the woods. Two factory workers, Brigitte and Paula, dream and talk about finding happiness, a comfortable home and a good man. They realize that their quest will...

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Elfriede Jelineks Älskarinnorna utspelar sig i en idyllisk österrikisk alpmiljö, men romanens känsloliv är allt annat än idylliskt. Två unga kvinnor, Brigitte och Paula, drömmer båda om ett annat liv än att vara fabrikssömmerska eller butiksbiträd...

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Ein blinder König regiert plötzlich die USA, und der Rest der Welt reibt sich ungläubig die Augen. Ein österreichischer Politiker verspricht einer reichen Russin die Herrschaft über die heimische Medien-Landschaft und verkauft ihr die Natur gleich...

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«MAN VERLÄUFT SICH IMMER SELBST IM ENTSCHEIDENDEN MOMENT.» Ausgehend von Franz Schuberts berühmtem Liederzyklus, durchwandert das «Ich» in Elfriede Jelineks Winterreise den Wahnwitz unserer Gegenwart, um schließlich in der eigenen Vergangenheit an...

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The magnum opus of 2004 Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek-a spectral journey through the catastrophic history embedded in the landscape of Austria ¿ "The surface of [Jelinek's] prose cracks and bursts . . . fissured by phantasmagorical description, ...

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The magnum opus of 2004 Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek-a spectral journey through the catastrophic history embedded in the landscape of Austria The Alpenrose is a mountain resort nestled in Austria's scenic landscape among historic churches and c...

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The magnum opus of 2004 Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek-a spectral journey through the catastrophic history embedded in the landscape of Austria ¿ "The surface of [Jelinek's] prose cracks and bursts . . . fissured by phantasmagorical description, ...

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Two plays by contemporary dramatists Gregory Motton and Elfriede Jelinek Cat and Mouse (Sheep) by Gregory Motton: Gengis starts a price war with the shop next door and ends up running the country with his uncle and aunty. Covering the Ingratitude ...

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For much of her career, Elfriede Jelinek has been maligned in the press for both her unrelenting critique of Austrian complicity in the Holocaust and her provocative deconstructions of pornography. Despite this, her central role in shaping contemp...

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In recent years, the refugee problem has become impossible to ignore, as multiple crises in the Middle East and Africa have driven thousands of desperate people to attempt Mediterranean crossings in hopes of reaching Europe, and safety. Many have ...

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Although Elfriede Jelinek is an internationally recognised playwright, her plays are difficult to find in English, which makes this new volume all the more valuable. In Rechnitz, a chorus of messengers reports on the circumstances of the massacre ...

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Carefully perched somewhere between tragedy and grotesque, high-pitched and squeamish, Jelinek's play, On the Royal Road, brings into focus the phenomenon of right-wing populism, which spreads like a virus and has a lasting effect on global politi...

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A new play from Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek that deals with the 2015 terror attack on the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo's offices in Paris. ¿ In Greek mythology, it is Hera who blinds the hero Heracles, so that, in a fit of fury,...

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Carefully perched somewhere between tragedy and grotesque, high-pitched and squeamish, Jelinek's play, On the Royal Road, brings into focus the phenomenon of right-wing populism, which spreads like a virus and has a lasting effect on global politi...

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Kurt Janisch is an ambitious, but frustrated country policeman. Things are not going right in his life - at least not fast enough. But a country policeman gets talking to a lot of people in the line of duty - particularly women. Lonely, middle-age...

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One of Elena Ferrante's Top 40 Best Books by WomenErika Kohut teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory by day. By night she trawls the city's porn shows while her mother, whom she loves and hates in equal measure, waits up for her. Into this emoti...

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With translation assistance and a foreword by Karen Juers-Munby First produced in 1998 at the famous Vienna Burgtheater, the remarkable and provocative Sports Play by Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek is a postdramatic theatrical exploration of...

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Written by the recipient of the 1986 Heinrich Boell Prize for German literature and the author of The Piano Teacher, this novel explores the darker side of life in Austria.

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An attempt to portray the horror of certain men's brutal sexual domination of women, this novel by the German author of The Piano Teacher tells the story of Gerti, a woman who turns in revulsion from her husband to a younger man, only to discover ...

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Originally written as a libretto for the Berlin State Opera, Elfriede Jelinek's rein GOLD reconstructs the events of Wagner's epic Ring cycle and extends them into the present day. Brünnhilde diagnoses Wotan, father of the gods, to be a victim of ...

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Die «Lebensbilanz» der Literatur-Nobelpreisträgerin - und eine große Geschichte über Schuld und Schulden. Ein steuerliches Ermittlungsverfahren, das zwar inzwischen längst eingestellt wurde, das aber selbst intimste E-Mails auswertete, wird für El...

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