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 B ll 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.
A chilling and truthful vision of women's precarious position in a
society still dominated by money and men
*Kirkus Reviews*
With formidable power, intelligence and skill she draws on the full
arsenal of derision. Her dense writing is obsessive almost to the
point of being unbearable. It hits you in the guts, yet is
clinically precise
*Le Monde*
Jelinek's jaundiced view of love and marriage in the claustrophobic
surroundings of rural Austria seem close to Karl Marx's view that
marriage in bourgeois society is little more than legalised
prostitution... Like Thomas Bernhard and the turn-of-the-century
satirist Karl Kraus, Jelinek belongs to a long line of Austrian
literary outsiders who, while relentlessly satirising the hypocrisy
of their native bourgeois culture, have been clasped firmly to the
establishment's bosom as cherished examples of Austria's enduring
excellence in the arts.
*The European*
Demystifying the idea of love and romance, post-modernist/feminist
author Jelinek brings to light some feminist interests in terms of
work, love, marriage, perception of life, happiness, etc, through
the contrasting stories of her two protagonists
*Library Journal*
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