By: matteo
In today's Libération: Romanesque et théâtrale, l'oeuvre d'Elfriede Jelinek, née le 20 octobre 1946 en Styrie, est une entreprise de démolition. Tout ce qui contribue à l'aliénation de l'art et de...
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mr_roboto-- I think the controversy over Jelinek's writing stems from her dark pessimism about Austria (and humanity) and her ornamental language, which seems pretentious to some. The Austrians I know...
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"Perhaps I abused his patience with my little personal dilemmas," cagey Samuel Beckett vs MiguelCardoso in chatty mode: in a regular MeFi Day this would be great material for a hundred snarks. but not...
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No conversations, unfortunately, but a big bunch of letters and plain postcards. They're mostly about the translations (and productions) - my method was to list all possible versions and wait for...
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In the NPR news blurb I heard about the prize this morning, she was described as "controversial", though that description was never explained. Anyone know what they were getting at? Sexual content?
View ArticleBy: amberglow
Another new author to explore--yay! (i haven't been let down yet by their picks that were unknown to me--Laxness, Saramago, Naipaul, Mahfouz...) The thing i took away from Vienna was a sad,...
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Miguel: I withdraw my slanderous accusations of universal love and join the general demand that you tell us ALL ABOUT YOUR CONVERSATIONS WITH BECKETT! Were there lots of painful silences?
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AFP is reporting she won't be in Stockholm on Dec 10, due to agoraphobia and panic attacks. Miguel: 456 links and 3513 comments to MetaFilter and 136 threads and 2618 comments to MetaTalk and 39...
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Thanks for the news, been meaning to check out Jelinek's work. This should make some of it easier to find in english. matteo, you'll make a better Haneke post than I ever could. He's my fave director...
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Miguel again:Samuel Beckett (who kindly helped me translate, over the years, several of his plays and stories into Portuguese)... Tell us about it! You're not the only one who likes Beckett...
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Miguel: I adore the work of Thomas Bernhard and Peter Handke but they've both managed to put me completely off the idea of one day visiting Austria. Throw in Jelinek and they're like a massive...
View ArticleBy: gesamtkunstwerk
The Nobel Committee has a point that they are trying to make. Modernist play with language, difficult, poeticized prose have been losing favor. I have a snobby guilty pleasure-- laughing at pretentious...
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*With apologies to others for going personal and off-topic* Miguel, how can one possibly like Bernhard and Handke? I love the former, can't stand the latter. it's usually either/or with the two of...
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By "best known for the story behind Michael Haneke's La Pianiste" you mean, of course, "unknown even though she wrote the story &c" -- unless you're under the impression that people interested in...
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Vienna leaves me verklempt every time I visit. Miguel, how can one possibly like Bernhard and Handke? I love the former, can't stand the latter. it's usually either/or with the two of them
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I'm with you, Matteo. I'd like to be more familiar with her work but haven't yet made the effort.
View ArticleBy: PinkStainlessTail
I adore the work of Thomas Bernhard When NPR started their reveal with "Austrian writer and playwright" my first reaction was "Huh? Bernhard's dead isn't he?"
View ArticleBy: MiguelCardoso
I think the Nobel Prize, when it's intelligently awarded, performs a useful function when it shames us to get round to reading interesting authors that we've *cough* always meant to explore. I have an...
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