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
people example cinema
you have often seen in the cinema, erich, haven't you, that between extraordinary people extraordinary things like for example extraordinary love can arise. so we only have to be extraordinary and see what happens.
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.
writing attention may
I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead
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.
ease irony draws
It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.
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.
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.
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
mr-right waiting firsts
Very few women wait for Mr. Right. Most women take the first and worst Mr. Wrong.
thinking political growing
I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity