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Three Plays by Jelinek (Seagull German Library)

by Elfriede Jelinek
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780857427120
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films
  • Publisher: Seagull Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Seagull
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 566
  • Original Price: INR 899.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 1000 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General

About the Book 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 construction 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. Although she is an internationally recognized playwright, jelinek’s plays are difficult to find in English, which makes this new volume, which includes “rechnitz: the exterminating angel,” “The merchants contracts” and “Charges (the Supplicants)” all the more valuable. In “rechnitz,” a chorus of Messengers reports on the circumstances of the massacre of 180 Jews, an actual historical event that took place near the Austrian/Hungarian border town of rechnitz. In “the merchants contracts,” Jelinek brings us a comedy of economics, where the babble and media spin of spectators leave small investors alienated and bearing the brunt of the economic crisis. In “Charges (the Supplicants),” Jelinek offers a powerful analysis of the plight of refugees, from ancient times to the present. She responds to the immeasurable suffering among those fleeing death, destruction, and political suppression in their home countries and, drawing on sources as widely separated in time and intent as up-to-the-minute blog postings and Aeschylus’s “the Supplicants,” Jelinek asks what refugees want, how we as a society view them, and what political, moral, and personal obligations they impose on us. About the Author Elfriede Jelinek is the author of many novels and plays, including The Piano Teacher. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004.

Honegger, Gitta: - Gitta Honegger has translated several works by Jelinek, as well as plays by Elias Canetti, Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, Franz Xaver Kroetz and Marieluise Fleißer, among others.

Jelinek, Elfriede: -

Elfriede Jelinek is a leading member of postwar Austria's first generation of artists. She is the author of several novels and plays, including On the Royal Road, published by Seagull Books. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004.

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