Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinekis an Austrian playwright and novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth20 October 1946
CountryUnited States of America
kind construction substitutes
Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds
ignorant desire way
Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.
art order relate
Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.
play long language
My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language
doors doe sometimes
It is not enough ... simply to surrender oneself brainlessly to love, when it knocks at the door, one must also calculate because of later life, which does sometimes follow.
art holiday fine
Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.
kissing simple two
Only he who loves and is loved for his own sake can be happy, and what produces that happiness is not so much the sense of sexual communion as of two people being together ... the sexual act viewed as a whole probably affords less happiness than a totally ordinary kiss or often indeed one simple word from the one you love.
fine
Trust is fine, but control is better.
stories pieces justified
Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our time. And things that were once considered immortal have become mortal again, no one knows them anymore. Even though they deserve to survive.
sunday leisure language
Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.
absurdity cliches flow linguistic musical novels plays reveal voices zeal
was made into an award-winning film, ''for her musical flow of voices and countervoices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power.
cannot remain swedish
After this I cannot even formally remain in the Swedish Academy,