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Greed is written with a uniquely sneering tone, and a tireless fury for civilisation. Jelinek has seized the conventional novel by its dirty shoelaces, turned it upside down, continuously shaking and pulling, so that the reader feels nausea settling in. She can be explicit and extremely hostile when in comes to the sex included, and writes with a full-on sordidness for us humans. But there is also a chirpiness throughout the novel, where maybe things are not suppose to be taken that seriously. Some have even called her a comic writer, I wouldn't go as far as that here. Themes in poetry are often quite apparent, but that isn’t always the case. Sometimes the theme doesn’t make itself apparent and is instead up to the reader. Reading a poem aloud often helps with understanding the theme. Here are some examples: I love her prose-poetry writing, the depths she can go into the darkest corners of her characters’ psyche, her lucidity and her gift of playing with the language, the dry tones. Arguably, she is hard to swallow, and no one pudic should touch her novels, as psychological realism is repulsive to most, and truth is vulgar. What I think Jelinek masters, for those who can go past the derangement, is manoeuvreing this repulsion, and bringing the reader to a point from which they can witness the horror with a dispassionate eye. In Greed (and most of her novels alike), one feels that the masterplan is bringing everything abominable up front while no perspective is given (the novel is written in the present tense, and I think this is another strategy to allow the reader to feel equidistant from all characters and their actions). Positiv fallen jedoch die Wortspiele und Metaphern auf – dies erstaunt mich umso mehr, da ich doch dachte, dass das Inventar an möglichen Wortspielen im Deutschen reichlich beschränkt sei. „Gier“ belehrt mich darin aber eines Besseren – leider zu oft des Guten! Anstatt die Technik zur Zier zu krönen, wird die Zier zum Hauptelement. Wann immer ein Umweg möglich ist, wird dieser auch gemacht. In den besten Fällen entstehen damit dichte Passagen wie diese (man beachte die Wortfelder „Grund“, „tief“ und „fremd“ / S. 311):

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Elfriede Jelinek won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004, but I had never read her work before. One of her previous novels, The Piano Teacher, was apparently made into a film that won several prizes in Cannes in 2001, but I have never seen it. So I had little to prepare me for Greed, her latest work to be translated into English. But I did have some preparation: last year, as a bet, I read James Joyce’s Ulysses. There are many similarities. If you like complex, stream-of-consciousness literature, you’ll love this book. Autoarea a luat Premiul Nobel pentru Literatura in 2004, precum si numeroase alte premii pentru romanele "Pianista", "Exclusii" sau "Amantele". Ultimele doua le-am citit si eu, mi-au placut foarte mult si totodata m-au amuzat, scriind cu placere recenzii despre ele aici si aici. And here’s the narrator: “There’s already a woman who’s involved in the accident, she owns her home, and she is likewise free, even if not in sexual matters. A freedom, however, which she doesn’t appreciate, she would much rather be in the custody of a man and not be responsible for it.”They pay court to women. Both of them actually. But mainly Janisch senior, the country policeman. That's so easily said, but he has already made so many people in this town and in this part of the country unhappy. Well, would you have guessed it? Preferably women who own houses or apartments in the nearby small town. It's a good thing if one gets around in one's job and the hours are a bit flexible, so that one can go for a wee drive in between. The husbands of these wives should be deceased if possible or never have existed in the first place. There should never have been children present either. He does have dreams, the man, they are, however, nailed to one or more houses or owner-occupied apartments and so not at all times freely disposable. Well, one house, a little house, he already has, his wife brought it into the marriage, that's also why he keeps the wife who belongs to it, despite the cost. The man can't bear to hear anymore, he's already had to hear so much, for him the whole thing is a process without any adornment.

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But recently the women, as already said, seem to suspect something, not what this man intends, they would never guess that, but whatever it is, inconsistent as their sex is according to legend, they for their part no longer want anything at all from the country policeman. This is quite a challenging book to read and it's the author's style that I feel would put most readers off finishing it - it almost made me abandon it. It's told in the third person, but it's unclear exactly who the narrator is, or if it is the same narrator throughout the book. Everything is clouded in mystery and many sentences are quite cryptic, we get the narrator's views on a variety of subjects, some relevant to the novel, whilst some are not. At times the narrative style reminded me of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, in that the narrator struggles to tell the story coherently as they get distracted by other thoughts, then circle around several times only slowly revealing the main narrative that we, the reader, is eager to hear. Céline does it brilliantly, but I'm not sure about Jelinek. While the bag of bones flies, it turns without grace a couple of times on its axis, a cumbersome comet, whose horned head, heavily burdened by the weights, points almost majestically in rapidly changing different directions, depending on the phase of the flight, and then lands on the road, the body, and is, for a moment at least, completely still. Quite unexpectedly Kurt Janisch's car was deprived of the momentum (M) which was necessary within the time (t) to lift the mass of the huge stag (m), a full-grown ten-pointer, for the killing of which the owner of the hunting ground up there had coughed up quite a sum, if the stag hadn't anyway had to cough its last, from ground level to the apex of its flight path (a), which was located behind the car as well as to propel the stag in the direction of travel. What follows is a captivating tale of love, loss, and redemption. Dominic, faced with the reality of Alessandra’s departure, awakens to the profound emptiness left in her absence. As he confronts the consequences of his obsession with success, he discovers that there might be more to life than riches and glory, but the question remains: Is it too late to salvage what he once held dear? Janisch's interest in these women mostly isn't primarily sexual; what he's really after is their real estate holdings.

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