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
cannot gladly manage
I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people.
cannot remain swedish
After this I cannot even formally remain in the Swedish Academy,
body judges looks system worth youthful
The system that judges the worth of women, the system that judges a woman's worth through her youthful body and looks and not for what she does.
academy author prize
The Academy may not want to give the prize to another young author
powerful side tried
When I write, I have always tried to be on the side of the weak. The side of the powerful is not literature's side.
accessible close early guess tried
That started very early on, and then I guess I tried to close up this fissure with something that was accessible to me, and all I had was writing.
both came damage literature nobel selection
It (the selection of Jelinek) has done irreparable damage to the Nobel literature prize, both those who came before Elfriede Jelinek and those who came after her.
government
The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.
against expose led meaning music musical process sound true words
My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.
The problem is that it is difficult to translate.
writing attention may
I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead
fashion block character
Characters on stage should be flat, like clothes in a fashion show: what you get should be no more than what you see. Psychological realism is repulsive, because it allows us to escape unpalatable reality by taking shelter in the “luxuriousness” of personality, losing ourselves in the depth of individual character. The writer's task is to block this manoeuvre, to chase us off to a point from which we can view the horror with a dispassionate eye.
lying book
He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.
vices
Vice is basically the love of failure.