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Charges (The Supplicants) by Elfriede Jelinek (Gitta Honegger TRN)
$38.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: SB-The German List | Reading Level: General Adult
In recent years, the refugee problem has become impossible to ignore, as multiple crises in the Middle East and Africa have driven thousands of desperate people to attempt Mediterranean crossings in hopes of reaching Europe, and safety. Many have died en route, and those who make it face a far from cert ...Show more
Fury by Elfriede Jelinek; Gitta Honegger (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A new play from Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek that deals with the 2015 terror attack on the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo's offices in Paris. In Greek mythology, it is Hera who blinds the hero Heracles, so that, in a fit of fury, he kills his own family. In the twenty-first century, th ...Show more
On the Royal Road: The Burgher King by Elfriede Jelinek; Gitta Honegger (Introduction by, Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek is known as a writer who works in response to contemporary crises and cultural phenomena. Perhaps none of her works display that quality as clearly as On the Royal Road. Three weeks after Donald Trump's election, Jelinek mailed her German editor the first draft of thi ...Show more
Rein Gold by Elfriede Jelinek; Gitta Honegger (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
2004 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Elfriede Jelinek's Rein Gold reconstructs the events of Wagner's epic Ring cycle and extends them into the present day. Originally written as a libretto for the Berlin State Opera,Rein Gold is abühnenessay, an essay for the stage, structured in the form of a dialo ...Show more
The Children of the Dead by Elfriede Jelinek; Gitta Honegger (Translator)
$60.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
The magnum opus of 2004 Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek--a spectral journey through the catastrophic history embedded in the landscape of Austria The Alpenrose is a mountain resort nestled in Austria's scenic landscape among historic churches and castles. It is a vacation idyll that attracts tourists fr ...Show more
The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A haunting tale of morbid voyeurism and mashochism. The Piano Teacher, is one of the greatest contemporary European novels. Erika Kohut, a piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory, is in her 40's and still lives with her mother. Their relationship is deeply disturbed - they fight throughout - but it is ...Show more
The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics
Controversial, modern, and unafraid to look the reader straight in the eye, "Serpent's Tail Classics" are books for life. This is the most famous work by Nobel Prize winning author - now a "Serpent's Tail Classic". A haunting tale of morbid voyeurism and masochism, "The Piano Teacher" is one of the grea ...Show more
The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Erika Kohut teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory by day. By night she trawls the porn shows of Vienna. Until one day, into Erika's secretive, repressed life bounds music student and ladies man, Walter Klemmer. With Walter as her student - and teacher - Erika spirals out of control, consumed by th ...Show more
Three Plays - Rechnitz, the Merchant's Contracts, Charges (the Supplicants) by Elfriede Jelinek; Gitta Honegger (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: The\German List Ser.
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 deconstructions of pornography. Despite this, her central role in shaping contemporary literature was finally recognized in 2004 with the ...Show more
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