Greed

"A woman is permitted to chat or babble, but speaking in public with authority is still the greatest transgression." -Elfride Jelinek. Elfriede Jelinek analyzes the male assessment and treatment of women with surgical lyricism. Her wisdom confronts the sordid reality that to most men women are to be used for their own pleasure, desires and...well--greed. Reading Elfriede Jelinek's _Greed_ illuminates the public sphere's debasement of U.S. women who are politicians such as Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin or Cynthia McKinney. The 2008 U.S. presidential election and the misogynistic treatment of the women candidates-Hillary Clinton (D), Sarah Palin (R), and Cynthia McKinney (Gn) are illuminated by reading the writings of Nobel Prize winner, Elfriede Jelinek. Gender-based attacks have been made against Palin, Clinton, and McKinney by men, by women, and especially by male clergy. These attacks have dominated discourse and drowned out discussion of the policies of the three women. "At the time of the Nobel Prize, Jelinek was asked whether she thought feminism had made any significant gains over the years. "Nothing," she said, "would lead one to suppose that it had." On October 27 2008 it was reported that Chad Michael Morisette depicted Sarah Palin hanging by a noose from the roof of a West Hollywood home and Sussex men blew up her effigy; a Chicago Catholic priest, Rev. Michael Pfleger, ridiculed Hillary Clinton and Samantha Power, a human rights scholar called Clinton a monster; a professor, John L. Jackson Jr., writes in July `08 about Cynthia McKinney "From Racial Scapegoat to Political Spoiler." Palin has been called a dominatrix. Clinton has been called a whore. McKinney has been called a slut and a hotheaded conspiracy theorist. .."life and the world is most often viewed from a male perspective. "-Elfriede Jelinek: Provocation as the Breath of Life. Elfriede Jelinek: Works in English The Piano Teacher : a Novel / translated from the German by Joachim Neugroschel. - New York : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988. - Translation of Die Klavierspielerin. Wonderful, Wonderful Times : [novel] / translated by Michael Hulse. - London : Serpent's Tail, 1990. - Translation of Die Ausgesperrten. Lust : [novel] / translated by Michael Hulse. - London : Serpent's Tail, 1992. - Translation of Lust. Women as Lovers : [novel] / translated by Martin Chalmers. - London : Serpent's Tail, 1994. - Translation of Die Liebhaberinnen. Einar / translated from German by P.J. Blumenthal. - Sausalito, Calif. : Post-Apollo Press, 2006. - Translation of Einar. "Janisch [Greed] is a much darker figure than Woyzeck, even than Moosbrugger, and Jelinek a far more pessimistic thinker than either Büchner or Musil."- "Up from the Cellar," by Nicholas Spice _London Review of Rooks_ June 5, 2008.

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

Read GREED ...Jelinek is a rare and unusual author - and one of the all too few authors we can read in translation.