Greed: A novel

Author - Elfriede Jelinek ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Hardcover Book item from Seven Stories Press was reviewed on 18-Oct-2008.

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1) Hardcover Book Greed: A novel by Seven Stories Press. 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 references to a God who lives in Catholic Churches, but not in the sins of the modern souls. So many philosophical reflections on the mechanistic economic structures that eat people and lead to greed.This Austria is not the Austria of the sound of music...
There is , here, a recognition of genius, of a tormented soul that writes very , very well.Accordian Crimes¤

2) Hardcover Book Greed: A novel by Seven Stories Press. 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.¤

3) Hardcover Book Greed: A novel by Seven Stories Press. Read GREED ...Jelinek is a rare and unusual author - and one of the all too few authors we can read in translation.¤

4) Hardcover Book Greed: A novel by Seven Stories Press.

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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