Elfriede Jelinek

• Mar-2024
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The magnum opus of 2004 Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek -- a spectral journey through the catastrophic history embedded in the landscape of Austria  "The surface of [Jelinek's] prose cracks and bursts . . . fissured by phantasmagorical descripti...

• Apr-2021
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• Apr-2017
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In recent years, the refugee problem has become impossible to ignore, as multiple crises in the Middle East and Africa have driven thousands of desperate people to attempt Mediterranean crossings in hopes of reaching Europe, and safety. Many have die...

• Mar-2013
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Her Not All Her is a play about, from, and to the great Swiss writer Robert Walser, by the great Austrian writer and Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek. It highlights what Jelinek calls 'the fundamental fragmentation' of Walser's voice, revealing Wa...

• Oct-2009
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From the Nobel Prize-winning Austrian author: a "brilliant, uncompromising" novel that "gets behind the cream-puff prettiness of Vienna" (Publishers Weekly). In The Piano Teacher, Elfride Jelinek creates a shocking portrait of a talented, capable ...

• Oct-2006
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From the Nobel Prize-winning author ....Greed is the story of Kurt Janisch, an ambitious but frustrated country policeman, and the lonely women he seduces. It is a thriller set amid the mountains and small towns of southern Austria, where the investi...

• Jul-1995
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Two Alpine factory workers who dream of finding a good man. Employing the conventions of romantic fiction, Jelinek dissects the double-standard by which women are held in their traditional place. "An unrelenting look at the bleak correspondence betwe...

• Apr-1993
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• Jul-1990
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Four bored teenagers plan a brutal gratuitous act as an expression of contempt for the mediocrity of everyday life in Austria. "Jelinek's prose is breathless and incisive as she paints psychological portraits of her characters in swift, sure brushstr...