Elfriede Jelinek was born in Austria in 1946 and grew up in Vienna where she attended the famous Music Conservatory. The leading Austrian writer of her generation, she has been awarded the Heinrich Boll Prize for her contribution to German literature. The film by Michael Haneke of The Piano Teacher won the three main prizes at Cannes in 2001. In 2004, Elfriede Jelinek was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her latest novel is Greed.
Sport, capitalism, male penetrative sexuality, bourgeois
consumerism, the family - are pilloried in between the ceaseless
rapes, buggeries and other adventures. Extraordinarily
well-written, with many brilliant turns of phrase, this remains in
my mind as the most disturbing European novel I have read this
year
*New Statesman*
A thorough rubbishing of romantic love, Lust is intricately written
with a tumbling pace, sustained and effective word-play and plenty
of sharp, cynical authorial observation. More than good.
*List*
The literary equivalent of Cindy Sherman's photographs of oozing,
dislocated sex organs or a particularly corrosive lyric by PJ
Harvey... as seamy and utterly honest as Martin Amis's Money
*TLS*
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