Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinekis an Austrian playwright and novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth20 October 1946
CountryUnited States of America
doors doe sometimes
It is not enough ... simply to surrender oneself brainlessly to love, when it knocks at the door, one must also calculate because of later life, which does sometimes follow.
solitude walks ifs
After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it.
play long language
My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language
children hands parent
As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing.
children mistake women
Women age early, and their mistake is not knowing where to hide all the time that lies behind them so that no one sees it. What are they to do, devour it like the umbilical cords of their children? Hell and damnation!
writing feelings want
I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak.
art holiday fine
Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.
writing attention may
I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead
deserving-it expression awards
Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award.
ease irony draws
It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.
writing worry feelings
I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing
work animal savages
Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.
firsts fine
The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.
fine
Trust is fine, but control is better.