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Elfriede Jelinek

Born

in Mürzzuschlag, Styria, Austria

October 20, 1946

Website

http://www.elfriedejelinek.com

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Drama

Influences

Ingeborg Bachmann, Robert Musil, Franz Kafka, Marlen Haushofer, Paul C ...more

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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." ...more

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Elfriede Jelinek’s books

Average rating: 3.59 · 24,496 ratings · 2,845 reviews · 160 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek, Joachim Neugroschel (Translator) 3.60 avg rating — 14,458 ratings — published 1983 — 163 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Les amantes 3.74 avg rating — 3,674 ratings — published 1975 — 63 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lust 3.30 avg rating — 1,902 ratings — published 1989 — 58 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wonderful, Wonderful Times 3.80 avg rating — 1,608 ratings — published 1980 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Greed by Elfriede Jelinek, Martin Chalmers (Translator) 3.37 avg rating — 523 ratings — published 2000 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Children of the Dead by Elfriede Jelinek, Gitta Honegger (Translator) 3.70 avg rating — 216 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Der Tod und das Mädchen I-V 3.54 avg rating — 177 ratings — published 2004 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Winterreise 3.50 avg rating — 152 ratings — published 2011 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Michael. Ein Jugendbuch für die Infantilgesellschaft. 3.28 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 1972 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	wir sind lockvögel, baby! 2.99 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 1988 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our time. And things that were once considered immortal have become mortal again, no one knows them anymore. Even though they deserve to survive.”
― Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher

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“He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.”
― Elfriede Jelinek, Wonderful, Wonderful Times

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“Vice is basically the love of failure.”
― Elfriede Jelinek, Pianolærerinnen

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