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.
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.
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.
ignorant desire way
Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.
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.
academy author prize
The Academy may not want to give the prize to another young author
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.
sunday leisure language
Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.
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.
kind construction substitutes
Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds
Seek and you shall find the repulsive things you secretly hope to find.
art order relate
Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.