Ideal and idealistic

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Austrian feminist Elfriede Jelinek won in 2004.  She was a co-translater of the German version of Gravity's Rainbow.

>From Wikipedia:

Prevalent topics in her prose and dramatic works are female sexuality, its abuse, and the war of the sexes in general. Texts like Wir sind Lockvögel, Baby! (We are Decoys, Baby), Die Liebhaberinnen (The Lovers), Die Klavierspielerin (The Piano Teacher) showcase the brutality and power play inherent in human relations in a style that is at times ironically formal and tightly controlled. According to Jelinek, power and aggression are often the principal driving forces of relationships. Her provocative novel Lust contains graphically-delineated descriptions of sexuality, aggression and abuse. It received poor reviews by many critics, some of whom considered it little more than pornography, but was considered misunderstood and undervalued by others, who noted the power of the cold descriptions of moral failures.


Laura 

-----Original Message-----
>From: Riot Riot <lyricsborn at gmx.de>
>Sent: Aug 1, 2006 4:17 PM
>To: Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com>, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Ideal and idealistic
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>Pynchon will never get it. Apart from the literary merit, nobody will receive the Nobel Prize who tells us about scatological sex, I´m sure of that...
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