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
government
The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.
lying book
He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.
firsts fine
The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.
work animal savages
Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.
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.
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
home class two
Anna despises two classes of people: first, those who own their own homes and have cars and families, and second, everybody else. Constantly she is on the verge of exploding. With rage. A pool of pure red. The pool is filled with speechlessness that talks away at her nonstop.
fighting men sexist
I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.
Seek and you shall find the repulsive things you secretly hope to find.
kind construction substitutes
Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds
ignorant desire way
Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.
art order relate
Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.
play long language
My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language
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.