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Elfriede Jelinek has 157 books on Goodreads with 75954 ratings. Elfriede Jelinek’s most popular book is The Piano Teacher.
She is one of the most decorated authors to write in German and was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature 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". [1]
The Piano Teacher (German: Die Klavierspielerin) is a novel by Austrian Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek, first published in 1983 by Rowohlt Verlag. Translated by Joachim Neugroschel, it was the first of Jelinek's novels to be translated into English.
The Children of the Dead (German: Die Kinder der Toten) is a novel by Elfriede Jelinek, first published in 1995 by Rowohlt Verlag. It is commonly regarded as her magnum opus. The novel won the Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen in 1996.
Jelinek’s significant novels included the satiric Die Ausgesperrten (1980; Wonderful, Wonderful Times, 1990), Lust (1989; Lust, 1992), and Gier (2000; Greed, 2006).
Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist, best known for her novel, The Piano Teacher. 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."
Jan 1, 2001 · The Piano Teacher, the most famous novel of Elfriede Jelinek, who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature, is a shocking, searing, aching portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires.
Elfriede Jelinek's most famous novels are The Piano Teacher (1983), Lust (1989), The Children of the Dead (1995). Her novels and plays have been translated into more than 30 languages and she received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004.
With cruel consistency Jelinek exposes the abuse of power through the infernal mother-daughter relationship in the above quoted, controversial novel The Piano Teacher (1988; Die Klavierspielerin, 1983; filmed as The Pianist, directed by Michael Haneke).
Oct 1, 2009 · 3.3 409 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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.
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