Elfriede Jelinek
Playwright
1946-10-20
Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian novelist, playwright, and poet known for formally experimental and socially critical writing. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004.
Books by Elfriede Jelinek
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Quotes by Elfriede Jelinek
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The moment workers can afford too little they rebel. The last time this was a real danger was 1950. Communists took advantage of supply problems and stirred up gullible people against their very own country.
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Ah, lust! How one would like to make it the cornerstone of self! But I wouldn't go ahead and build on it if I were you.
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Ah, lust! How one would like to make it the cornerstone of self! But I wouldn't go ahead and build on it if I were you.
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The moment workers can afford too little they rebel. The last time this was a real danger was 1950. Communists took advantage of supply problems and stirred up gullible people against their very own country.
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I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.
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Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.
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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.
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A woman who becomes famous through her work reduces her erotic value. A woman is permitted to chat or babble, but speaking in public with authority is still the greatest transgression.
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The problem is that it is difficult to translate.
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I associate the metaphor of sport with war. The unrest in the former Yugoslavia, after all, started with a football match that then became charged in nationalist ways and ended in violence.
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My inspiration came especially in the 1950s through the Vienna Group founded by writer H.C. Artmann. It showed me that if you want to say something, you have to let the language itself say it, because language is usually more meaningful than the mere content that one wishes to convey.
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