ELFRIEDE JELINEK:

(b. 1946, Murzzuschlag)

HER WORK AND LIFE

Prepared by Bob Corbett

• Bob Corbett reviews and comments on her books.
  
  
  • Elfriede Jelinek's WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL TIMES. Comments from September 2000.
    
    
  • Elfriede Jelinek's THE PIANO TEACHER. Comments from May 2001.
    
    
  • An encounter with a reader on a Schnellbahn. 1998.
  
  
  
• Links to other people's pages:
  
  
  • Elfiede Jelinek's Own Home Page!   While the general page is in German there are three essays which are in English. Just click on them from the offerings in the left margin. They are:
    
    
    1. I WANT TO BE SHALLOW (about the nature of theater)
       
       
    2. ABOUT BRECHT -- Brecht out of fashion (critical essays on Brecht
       
       
    3. UNRULY PATHS TRODDEN TOO LATE -- About Franz Schubert
       
       
    4. LETTER TO FLORENTIA PAKOSTA (about art)
    
    
    
  • Elfriede Jelinek, biographic material and other    Site of David Barnett carries links to information on her plays, books and other links.
    
    
  • Against the Horizon: Feminist and Post-War Austrian Writers   This a publisher's ad for a book by Jacqueline Vansant in which Elfriede Jelinek is one of the women considered.