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
kissing simple two
Only he who loves and is loved for his own sake can be happy, and what produces that happiness is not so much the sense of sexual communion as of two people being together ... the sexual act viewed as a whole probably affords less happiness than a totally ordinary kiss or often indeed one simple word from the one you love.
fine
Trust is fine, but control is better.
stories pieces justified
Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our time. And things that were once considered immortal have become mortal again, no one knows them anymore. Even though they deserve to survive.
sunday leisure language
Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.
body judges looks system worth youthful
The system that judges the worth of women, the system that judges a woman's worth through her youthful body and looks and not for what she does.
government
The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.
cannot gladly manage
I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people.
against expose led meaning music musical process sound true words
My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.
The problem is that it is difficult to translate.
accessible close early guess tried
That started very early on, and then I guess I tried to close up this fissure with something that was accessible to me, and all I had was writing.
both came damage literature nobel selection
It (the selection of Jelinek) has done irreparable damage to the Nobel literature prize, both those who came before Elfriede Jelinek and those who came after her.
cannot remain swedish
After this I cannot even formally remain in the Swedish Academy,