NP...but Ms. Jelinek, nobelist and TRP translator...

[Mark Kohut]

About the Austrian incest in a dungeon case.
Burkhard Müller read Elfriede Jelinek's text about Amstetten on her homepage and concludes: "The Amstetten case must have seemed not only possible to her from the first moment on, but utterly inevitable." 

The text is titled "Im Verlassenen" (which translates as roughly as "abandoned in a dungeon") and is not intended to be quoted. "All texts here are protected by copyright and should not be reproduced or quoted in any form without permission", it says on her homepage. But we were particularly interested in the passage about the architecture of the dungeon in Amstetten: "The performance by this grandfather-god-the-father who has constructed an idyll which he has artlessly built in the form of a female body, with its many niches and passages, where you can't look in at everything from everywhere, it is not art to use something as the female body, even if you don't have one, there are blow-up sex dolls, hollowed out apples, animals etc., but it is an art to build spaces as a woman might, and decorate them with pretty patterns, a temple, only built for the lust of the father." Here Jelinek's text in full.

       
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