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.
academy author prize
The Academy may not want to give the prize to another young author
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.
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.
thinking political growing
I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity