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Books by Elfriede Jelinek
  | | The German List Ser. On the Royal Road : The Burgher King by Elfriede Jelinek Hardcover, 204 Pages, Published 2020 by Seagull Books London Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-85742-778-6, ISBN: 0-85742-778-4 "Carefully perched somewhere between tragedy and grotesque, high-pitched and squeamish, Jelinek in this work questions her own position and forms of resistance." |
 | | Greed A Novel by Elfriede Jelinek, Martin Chalmers Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2008 by Seven Stories Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58322-842-5, ISBN: 1-58322-842-X "Greed is another intriguing and challenging novel from Europe's cleverest, most visceral social phobic.-The ListIn her first novel published in English since becoming the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004, Elfriede Jelinek delivers a stunning and unforgettable book.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 ..." |
 | | Women As Lovers by Elfriede Jelinek, Martin Chalmers Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1995 by Serpent's Tail ISBN-13: 978-1-85242-237-0, ISBN: 1-85242-237-8 "The setting is an idyllic Alpine village where a woman's underwear factory nestles in the woods. Two factory workers, Brigitte and Paula, dream and talk about finding happiness, a comfortable home and a good man. They realize that their quest will be as hard as work at the factory. Brigitte subordinates her feelings and goes for for Heinz, a young, plump, up-and-coming businessman. With Paula, feelings and dreams become confused. She ge ..." |
 | | The Piano Teacher (Serpent's Tail Classics) by Elfriede Jelinek, Joachim Neugroschel, Razia Iqbal Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2002 by Serpent's Tail ISBN-13: 978-1-85242-750-4, ISBN: 1-85242-750-7 ""The Piano Teacher , [winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature,] is an exploration of fascism, not so much in the political sense as in the personal. In Joachim Neugroschel's excellent translation, the language is simple yet full of imaginative, often-funny metaphors, the view of the world original, if at times almost painfully bizarre."-New York Times Book Review\n\n"A dazzling performance that will make the blood run cold."-Walter ..." |
 | | Lust by Elfriede Jelinek, Michael Hulse Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1993 by Serpent's Tail ISBN-13: 978-1-85242-183-0, ISBN: 1-85242-183-5 "In a quaint Austrian ski resort, things are not quite what they seem. Hermann, the manager of a paper mill, has decided that sexual gratification begins at home. Which means Gerti - his wife and property. Gerti is not asked how she feels about the use Hermann puts her to. She is a receptacle into which Hermann pours his juices, nastily, briefly, brutally. The long-suffering and battered Gerti thinks she has found her saviour and love i ..." |
 | | Everybody Talks About the Weather . . . We Don't(1st Edition) The Writings of Ulrike Meinhof by Ulrike Marie Meinhof, Karin Bauer, Elfriede Jelinek, Bettina Rohl, Luise Von Flotow, Karen Bauer, Karen Karin Bauer, Professor Meinhof Ulrike Hanna Paperback, 268 Pages, Published 2008 by Seven Stories Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58322-831-9, ISBN: 1-58322-831-4 "No other figure embodies revolutionary politics, radical chic, and the promises and failures of the New Left quite like Ulrike Meinhof (1934-76). In the 1960s, she was known in Europe as a journalist and public intellectual, leading an exciting life in Hamburg’s high society with her publisher husband and twin daughters. Ten years later, Meinhof gave up her bourgeois existence to form, with Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin, the Red Arm ..." |
 | | The Piano Teacher(1st Edition) by Elfriede Jelinek, Joachim Neugroschel Hardcover, 280 Pages, Published 1988 by Grove Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-55584-052-5, ISBN: 1-55584-052-3 |
 | | Charges by Elfriede Jelinek, Gitta Honegger Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2016 by Seagull Books ISBN-13: 978-0-85742-330-6, ISBN: 0-85742-330-4 "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 died en route, and those who make it face a far from certain future, as European governments have proved reluctant to fully acknowledge, let alone commit to ameliorating, their plight. In"Char ..." |
 | | Rechnitz and The Merchant's Contracts (Seagull Books - In Performance) by Elfriede Jelinek, Gitta Honegger, Gottfried Honegger Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2015 by Seagull Books ISBN-13: 978-0-85742-225-5, ISBN: 0-85742-225-1 "For much of her career, Elfriede Jelinek has been maligned in the press for both her unrelenting critique of Austrian complicity in the Holocaust and her provocative deconstructions of pornography. Despite this, her central role in shaping contemporary literature was finally recognized in 2004 with the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The committee acknowledged Jelinek’s groundbreaking work that offers a “musical flow of voices a ..." |
 | | The Piano Teacher(Reprint) A Novel by Elfriede Jelinek, Joachim Neugroschel Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2009 by Grove Press Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-4461-4, ISBN: 0-8021-4461-6 "The most popular work from provocative Austrian Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek, "The Piano Teacher" is a searing portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires. Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the prestigious and formal Vienna Conservatory, who still lives with her domineering and possessive mother. Her life appears boring, but Erika, a quiet thirty-eight-year-old, secretly visits Turkish peep shows at ..." |
 | | The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek, Joachim Neugroschel Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1999 by Serpent's Tail ISBN-13: 978-1-85242-725-2, ISBN: 1-85242-725-6 "Passion, thwarted sexuality and love-hate for a mother dominate the life of Erika Kohut, a piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory. Whilst her mother waits up for her, Erika Kohut trawls the porn shows of Vienna in search of tacky pleasure. Into this emotional pressure-cooker bounds Walter Klemmer, music student and ladies' man. As the relationship between teacher and pupil spirals downward, Jelinek paints a frightening picture of a wo ..." |
 | | On the Royal Road by Elfriede Jelinek 128 Pages, Published 2021 by Gazebo Books ISBN-13: 978-0-648-90114-3, ISBN: 0-648-90114-9 "On the Royal Road brings into focus the phenomenon of right-wing populism. Carefully perched somewhere between tragedy and grotesque, high-pitched and squeamish, Jelinek in this work questions her own position and forms of resistance." |
 | | Greed by Elfriede Jelinek Paperback ISBN-13: 978-1-4587-8454-4, ISBN: 1-4587-8454-1 |
 | | The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek, Joachim Neugroschel, Razia Iqbal Paperback, 290 Pages, Published 2016 by Serpent's Tail ISBN-13: 978-1-78125-568-1, ISBN: 1-78125-568-7 ""The Piano Teacher , [winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature,] is an exploration of fascism, not so much in the political sense as in the personal. In Joachim Neugroschel's excellent translation, the language is simple yet full of imaginative, often-funny metaphors, the view of the world original, if at times almost painfully bizarre."-New York Times Book Review"A dazzling performance that will make the blood run cold."-Walter Abi ..." |
 | | Sports Play (Oberon Modern Plays) by Elfriede Jelinek, Penny Black, Karen Jurs-Munby Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2013 by Oberon Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84943-402-7, ISBN: 1-84943-402-6 ""First produced in 1998 at the famous Vienna Burgtheater, the remarkable and provocative Sports Play by Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek is a postdramatic theatrical exploration of the making, marketing and sale of the human body and of emotions in sport. It explores contemporary society's obsession with fitness and body culture bringing into sharp focus our need to belong to a group, a team or a nation. Sport is seen as a form of w ..." |
 | | Her Not All Her (Sylph Editions - Cahiers) by Elfriede Jelinek, Damion Searls, Thomas Newbolt Paperback, 40 Pages, Published 2013 by Sylph Editions ISBN-13: 978-0-9569920-4-8, ISBN: 0-9569920-4-8 "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 Walser as ‘one of those people who, when they said “I”, did not mean themselves’. Presented here in a prize-winning translation by Damion Searls, it shows Jelinek to be an impassioned vi ..." |
 | | Sports Play by Elfriede Jelinek, Penny Black 160 Pages, Published 2012 by Oberon Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84943-638-0, ISBN: 1-84943-638-X "She directed Holy Mothers by Werner Schwab (Pleasance Theatre, supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum London) and ... Tragedy by Thomas Kyd (Arcola Theatre) and set designer for Cut Off, Woman Bomb and Red, Black and Ignorant . ... Penny has translated over thirty contemporary plays from the German for theatres including the Royal Court, the Gate, Arcola ... and Sudden Silence, about the effects of stroke and the methods used in r ..." |
 | | Greed by Elfriede Jelinek 396 Pages, Published 2010 by Profile Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84765-162-4, ISBN: 1-84765-162-3 "The train has departed, no one tells us that over the loudspeaker, a scarf pressed to their face, otherwise one would recognise it and its voice, which in reality, however, belong to a certain Mrs Chris Lohner, present a thousand times over, one ..." |
 | | The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek 226 Pages, Published 2010 by Profile Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84765-306-2, ISBN: 1-84765-306-5 "The Piano Teacher was adapted into an internationally successful film by Michael Haneke, which won three major prizes at Cannes, including the Grand Prize and Best Actress for Isabelle Huppert." |
 | | Books That Changed the World Ser. The Piano Teacher : A Novel by Elfriede Jelinek 288 Pages, Published 2009 by Grove/Atlantic, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-9883-9, ISBN: 0-8021-9883-X "Erika cleans herself by patting herself. With soft whipping strokes, she runs her hands over her skirt and jacket. It was so stormy and gusty outside that the dust must have settled in her clothes. Erika sidesteps passersby before they even come within eyeshot. It was on one of those wickedly flickering ... even though he benefited from this manual skill. After all, the initial would prevent an equally dotty Herr Novotny or Herr Vy ..." |
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