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English Language : Classical Music : News : Autumn 2004 Monday 11 October 2004 : Elfriede Jelinek : Nobel Prize in Literature 2004 |
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Information Just a few loose quotes taken from her biobibliographical notes without any further comments ... (**) The source for the following notes is www.nobelprize.org . More precisely : http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/2004/jelinek-bibl.html .  Elfriede Jelinek Austria - born 1946 Elfriede Jelinek was born on 20 October 1946 in the town of Murzzuschlag in the Austrian province of Styria ... At an early age, she was instructed in piano, organ and recorder and went on to study composition at the Vienna Conservatory ... After graduating from the Albertsgymnasium in 1964, she studied theatre and art history at the University of Vienna while continuing her music studies ... In 1971, she passed the organist diploma examination at the Conservatory ... Elfriede Jelinek began writing poetry while still young ... She conquered the German literary public with her novels ... and the autobiographically based Die Klavierspielerin (1983; The Piano Teacher, 1988) (***), in 2001 made into an acclaimed film by Michael Haneke ... These novels, each within the framework of its own problem complex, present a pitiless world where the reader is confronted with a locked-down regime of violence and submission, hunter and prey ... Jelinek demonstrates how the entertainment industry's cliche's seep into people's consciousness and paralyse opposition to class injustices and gender oppression. The nature of Jelinek's texts is often hard to define ... They shift between prose and poetry, incantation and hymn, they contain theatrical scenes and filmic sequences ... The primacy in her writing has however moved from novel-writing to drama ...  She has also written a large number of pieces for radio and the theatre, in which she successively abandoned traditional dialogues for a kind of polyphonic monologues that do not serve to delineate roles but to permit voices from various levels of the psyche and history to be heard simultaneously ... Jelinek has translated others' works and has also written film scripts and an opera libretto ... Alongside her literary writing she has made a reputation as a dauntless polemicist with a website always poised to comment on burning issues ... (****) (The Swedish Academy) (**) You can also read much more about Elfriede Jelinek at : http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/2004/index.html . (***) Naturally, the specific work has been translated into many languages. (****) It is about the website : http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/elfriede/ . |
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