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Neid by Elfriede Jelinek is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Neid about?

Source: https://original.elfriedejelinek.com/ Review by Christine Schranz, September 2008 at [ book tip by Incentives ]: "Neid" is the title of the new novel by Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek. It is a “private novel”, which can only be read on the author’s homepage, and therefore does not participate in the literary market. Jelinek confronts the lack of work done on coming to terms with Austria’s Nazi past, making a comparison between the tourist industry and the current immigration policy, and casting a critical and ironical eye on the “Austrians’ self-constructed theory of victimization” and its present-day counterpart – victims such as Natascha Kampusch who are celebrated by the media. One of the victims is also the first-person narrator of the novel. She is the victim of her mother, but also a victim of her critics, and this is treated in an ironical way, making her a perpetrator in her turn. Another victim is the repeatedly announced main character, the violin instructress Brigitte K. Abandoned by her former husband and betrayed by her younger lover, she does away with the latter’s girlfriend. Yet, after all the blood that flows into the Danube in Envy, this murder seems

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Author

Elfriede Jelinek

Language

DE

Category

work of fiction