Elfriede Jelinek
Lust
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In LUST, by Nobel Prizewinner Elfriede Jelinek, Hermann is the manager of a paper mill in an Austrian ski resort. Dictatorial and tyrannical, he sexually abuses his wife, Gerti, on a routine basis.
The Piano Teacher
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Nobel Prizewinner Elfriede Jelinek's 1988 novel is the story of Erika Kohut, a middle-aged piano teacher in Vienna whose refuge from her constricted life is hardcore pornography. When she becomes involved in an affair with one of her piano student...
Elfriede Jelinek
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Wonderful, Wonderful Times
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Elfriede Jelinek`s bleak tale takes place in Vienna in the late 1950s, and follows four alienated students--two male, two female--as they spend their days indulging in violent acts, beating and mugging people.
Women As Lovers
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First published in Germany in 1975, this novel by Nobel Prizewinner Elfriede Jelinek is the story of two women trying to improve their lives through the lives of their men.
Literary and Cultural Rhetoric of Victimhood
In a series of paradigmatic readings of Rene Girard, Peter Sloterdijk, Michael Haneke, Anselm Kiefer, Michel Houellebecq, Elfriede Jelinek, Giorgio Agamben, Naqvi examines the current fascination with victimhood and the desire for victim status.