'That's brutal violence on a defenceless person, and quite unnecessary, declares Sophie, and she pulls with an audible tearing sound at the hair of the man lying in an untidy heap on the ground. What's unnecessary is best of all, says Rainer, who wants to go on fighting. We ageed on that.' It is the late 1950s. A man is out walking in a park in Vienna. He will be beaten up by four teenagers, not for his money, he has an average amount ? nor for anything he might have done to them, but because the youths are arrogant and very pleased with themselves. Their arrogance is their way of reacting...
'That's brutal violence on a defenceless person, and quite unnecessary, declares Sophie, and she pulls with an audible tearing sound at the hair of...
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 brutally.
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 begi...
Two Alpine factory workers who dream of finding a good man. Employing the conventions of romantic fiction, Jelinek dissects the double-standard by which women are held in their traditional place. "An unrelenting look at the bleak correspondence between marriage, capitalism and sex. Every sentence slams home a truth."--Voice Literary Supplement
Two Alpine factory workers who dream of finding a good man. Employing the conventions of romantic fiction, Jelinek dissects the double-standard by whi...
Kurt Janisch is an ambitious, but frustrated country policeman. Things are not going right in his life - at least not fast enough. But a country policeman gets talking to a lot of people in the line of duty - particularly women. Lonely, middle-aged women, women with a bit of property perhaps... Matters go from bad to worse: for Kurt Janisch, for the women who fall for him. Someone sees too much, knows too much. Soon there's a body in a lake and a murderer to be caught.
A thriller set amid the mountains and small towns of southern Austria, Greed is Elfriede Jelinek's most...
Kurt Janisch is an ambitious, but frustrated country policeman. Things are not going right in his life - at least not fast enough. But a country po...
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 night and watched sadomasochistic films. Meanwhile, a handsome, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old student has become enamored with Erika and sets out to...
The most popular work from provocative Austrian Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek, "The Piano Teacher" is a searing portrait of a woman bound between a ...
In der verschwiegenen Welt der Banken hat sich eine Art "Finanzaristokratie" herausgebildet, der die neuerdings sogenannte "Realwirtschaft" völlig egal zu sein scheint. Claudia Honegger, Sighard Neckel und Chantal Magnin sind mit ihren Forschungsteams in diese Welt eingedrungen und haben mit deutschen, österreichischen und schweizerischen "Finanzsoldaten" gesprochen. Die dabei entstandenen soziologischen Porträts bilden den Kern dieses Buchs. Sie beantworten Fragen wie: Wie deuten Banker und Bankerinnen die Krise auf den Finanzmärkten? Wie ist es dazu gekommen? Wer trägt die...
In der verschwiegenen Welt der Banken hat sich eine Art "Finanzaristokratie" herausgebildet, der die neuerdings sogenannte "Realwirtschaft" völlig eg...
Einem Menschen, einem Werk ist dieser Text, der als Stück ausgewiesen, aber vielmehr eine Sammlung poetischer Aphorismen ist, gewidmet, zugeeignet, Robert Walser, zu dem alles hinführt und mit dem dieser Gedankenflug unternommen wird über Landschaften hinweg zur Seele hin, zum Ich.
Einem Menschen, einem Werk ist dieser Text, der als Stück ausgewiesen, aber vielmehr eine Sammlung poetischer Aphorismen ist, gewidmet, zugeeignet, R...
