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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 833.914
EAN: 9781583227572
ISBN: 1583227571
Label: Seven Stories Press
Manufacturer: Seven Stories Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: April 01, 2007
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Sales Rank: 258872
Studio: Seven Stories Press
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Kurt Janisch is an ambitious but frustrated country policeman who gets talking to a lot of people in the line of duty, particularly to women: lonely, middle-aged women with a bit of extra property. . . . Things go from bad to worse, for Kurt Janisch and the women who fall for him. Someone sees and knows too much, and soon there's a body in a lake and a murderer to be caught.
A thriller set amid the mountains and small towns of southern Austria, Greed is Elfriede Jelinek's most important novel since The Piano Teacher. In her inimitable way, Jelinek touches on the ecological costs of affluence, the inescapable burden of language, the exploitative nature of relations between men and women, the impossibility of life without relationships. A meditative reflection on aging, Greed is another chapter in Jelinek's chronicling of her love-hate relationship with her native Austria.
Elfriede Jelinek was born in Austria in 1946 and grew up in Vienna, where she attended the famous Music Conservatory. The leading Austrian writer of her generation, she has been awarded the Heinrich Boll Prize for her contribution to German literature. The film of The Piano Teacher by Michael Haneke won the three main prizes at Cannes in 2001. In 2004, she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Rating:  - An Austrian E. Annie Proulx?
Bitter acidic wit only partially neutralized by the breath of woman?
There is an innate failure of a cultural core as reflected in an individual struggle with reality. A stream of consciousness type of prose that seemd to cover a world of eventualities. When God leaves the church , the devil; finds a way.In the cool confident prose that breaks over you like a fresh cool ocean wave, we get the whiff of edelweiss and the just deserts of the country policeman. Oblique, cloudy and obtuse are the ... Read More
Rating:  - Incomprehensible
After reading a positive review in the local newspaper, I purchased this novel and waded my way through it over several weeks. I hate to admit this but I found it extremely heavy to get thought. Some sections of prose very effective but the plot boarded on rambling for most of the time. This is not the first Nobel Prize winner I have found more pretension in their writing than accessible (Patrick White comes to mind) but I dont recommend this book for the faint hearted.
Rating: - Read Elfriede Jelinek !!
Read GREED ...Jelinek is a rare and unusual author - and one of the all too few authors we can read in translation.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 833.914
EAN: 9781583227572
ISBN: 1583227571
Label: Seven Stories Press
Manufacturer: Seven Stories Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: April 01, 2007
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Sales Rank: 258872
Studio: Seven Stories Press