Jelinek's Children of the Dead

[Mark Kohut]

I was recently reminded of her saying that she did not deserve to win the
Nobel if Thomas Pynchon hadn't.

On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 4:32 PM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Glad someone finally translated this into English
>
> https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300142150/the-children-of-the-dead/
>
> Originally published in 1995 in German, the Austrian writer Elfriede
> Jelinek’s “The Children of the Dead <https://amzn.to/3PqXVwH>” is perhaps
> the only zombie novel written by a Nobel Prize winner. Of course — Jelinek
> being Jelinek — it is a great deal more than that: a savage reckoning with
> the Holocaust; an indictment of consumer culture; a compilation of ghastly
> erotica replete with undead orgies; an erudite display of Joycean wordplay;
> and a relentlessly bleak portrait of the human capacity for self-deception.
>
>
> rich
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