Have you ever heard of Elfriede Jellinek

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 11:56 am

She is the Austrian writer who just won the Nobel Prize in literature.

susnfx · Post by **susnfx** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 12:33 pm

You left off: "Yes, but only since you mentioned her in the Nobel prize thread."

Susan

kga26 · Post by **kga26** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 12:37 pm

Aparrantly she wrote a book called 'The Piano Teacher' . I havn't read it, but have it on good authority that it is a bit risque. She is a recluse, and will not be going to pick up her prize, as she doesn't want any publicity. (So why publish a book?) Anyway, there you have the benefit of my complete knowledge on the subject, which as with everything else is not a lot!

claudine · Post by **claudine** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 1:18 pm

Bloomieboy, have you read one of her books? And would you recommend them? I just read some comments about "Die Klavierspielerin" and they scare me. I'm afraid I would be lost in depression for the rest of the winter if I read that book.

Darwin · Post by **Darwin** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 1:56 pm

Heck, I hadn't even heard of Dick Cheney until he won the Vice Presidency of the US of A.

The first time the US put a man into orbit, I didn't hear about it until a week later.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 2:15 pm

claudine wrote:Bloomieboy, have you read one of her books? And would you recommend them? I just read some comments about "Die Klavierspielerin" and they scare me. I'm afraid I would be lost in depression for the rest of the winter if I read that book.

Claudine, you have scared me off. Life is heavy enough.

Miwokhill · Post by **Miwokhill** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 4:56 pm

She didn't win the prize for The Piano Teacher though, or did she? It's just that it was published in 1986 I think. I went and saw the movie a couple of years ago and it was as disturbing as the mind of the lead character. Check out a review or two for the book on Amazon for more feedback.- The story could have been quite sensual but it decided take a different fork in that road altogether. -mike

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 4:59 pm

I've heard of her, but haven't read anything of hers. I still haven't read The Sorrows Of Young Werther, which you suggested that I read about a year ago. I have the book on my shelf, just haven't gotten around to reading it, yet.

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 9:46 pm

here she is:

http://search.netscape.com/ns/boomframe ... ature.html

She is definately NOT a patriot. She would not allow any of her plays to be performed in her native country.

I have not read any of her work.

I am making my way through "The Known World" by Edward P. Jones and it won the Pulitzer prize. Does this count? Can I get some points for this one? :roll:

I am also making my way through a new Steven King. Does this mean I loose points?

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 9:53 pm

cowtime wrote:I am making my way through "The Known World" by Edward P. Jones and it won the Pulitzer prize. Does this count? Can I get some points for this one?

Hey if you get points for that, can I get points for reading Make Way for Ducklings to my kids? It won the Randolf Caldecott Medal

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 5:53 am

(this thread, btw, has gotten disturbingly horizontal.)

Excerpts from Baltimore Sun Book Editor Michael Ollove, on Jelinek:

...a feminist writer with an uncompromisingly dark, disturbing and occasionally brutal vision of human nature...

Her work is peopled by characters who are fractured, self-lacerating
and pathologic.

...lauded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for "her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary
linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating
power."

michael_coleman · Post by **michael_coleman** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 10:33 am

There was a special on NPR about this yesterday....I guess thats why you guys are talking about it...

scottielvr · Post by **scottielvr** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 5:49 pm

I came in late, as usual. Where'd the poll go? I see only a featureless gray expanse (Maybe that's just the reflection of my cerebral cortex right now). Was there a poll? I wanted to feel validated in my intellectual destitution, dang it.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 6:06 pm

Poll's still there Scottie...it's just that this entire thread has become horizontally distorted and you have to scroll right.

scottielvr · Post by **scottielvr** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 6:26 pm

Thanks, emm... You'd think I would have noticed the sudden appearance of an extra scroll bar at the bottom ... cripes. Chalk it up to the cerebellar noninvolution previously referenced...

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Have you ever heard of Elfriede Jellinek

Have you ever heard of Elfriede Jellinek?

Have you ever heard of Elfriede Jellinek