Her Not All Her: On/with Robert Walser (Sylph Cahiers No. 18)
by Elfriede Jelinek
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Her Not All Her is a play about, from, and to the great Swiss writer Robert Walser, by the great Austrian writer and Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek. It highlights what Jelinek calls 'the fundamental fragmentation' of Walser's voice, revealing Walser as 'one of those people who, when they said "I", did not mean themselves'. Presented here in a prize-winning translation by Damion Searls, it shows Jelinek to be an impassioned virtuoso reader of classic European writers. The cahier contains show more an essay by the Director of the Robert Walser Centre, Reto Sorg, and thirteen paintings by the British artist Thomas Newbolt. show lessTags
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This is the sort of writing that demands more of me than I am. It is obvious to me that Elfriede Jelinek is one of the most gifted and intelligent writers working today. She is a treasure and should be read if not listened to. Stop all the feminist connections as she is much more than that. There is not a suitable box to fit her in. So there. And Robert Walser fans, pseudo or otherwise, might want to prepare themselves some time for a reading of this fine little book.
My feature piece on Walser and Jelinek published in The Quarterly Conversation: http://quarterlyconversation.com/walking-with-walser
Ein kurzes Stück. Ganze 27 bedruckte Seiten. Ist es ein Stück? Mehrere Stimmen sind es schon, aber wenig mehr verraten sie. Also ein Stück schon. Vielleicht auch ein Gedicht. Man sollte den Stimmen zuhören. Oder es einem selbst vorlesen, um der eigenen Stimme zu lauschen. Es wieder lesen, laut, mit anderer Betonung, etwas hören, was man beim vorherigen Lesen überhört hat, etwas zurückziehen und anderes „auf die Gleise setzen.“ Es wieder versuchen, obwohl: „doch das ergiebt kein Ganzes und keinen Sinn: Rob-er-t nicht als Wals-er, er nicht als er. Keiner. Alles.“ (IV-11) *****
Apr 15, 2011German
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Elfriede Jelinek was born on October 20, 1946 in Mürzzuschlag, Styria, Austria. She is an Austrian playwright and novelist. Jelinek was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004. Jelinek started writing poetry at a young age. She made her literary debut with the collection Lisas Schatten (Lisa's Shadow) in 1967 and received her first literary show more prize in 1969. Female sexuality, its abuse, and the battle of the sexes in general are prominent topics in her work. Her works include: Wir sind Lockvögel, Baby! (We are Decoys, Baby!), Die Liebhaberinnen (Women as Lovers) and Die Klavierspielerin (The Piano Teacher). That last novel was the basis for the 2001 Austrian film of the same name, The Piano Teacher, directed by Michael Haneke and starring French actress Isabelle Huppert. When awarded the Nobel prize in 2004, Jelinek was criticized for not accepting the prize in person; instead, a video message was presented at the ceremony. Jelinek revealed that she suffers from agoraphobia and social phobia, so she was more comfortable accepting via video. Jelinek was also awarded many other prizes for her literature. These include: Georg Büchner Prize, 1998; Franz Kafka Prize, 2004; and the German Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis award three times, 2004, 2009 and 2011. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Sylph Cahiers (18)
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- Her Not All Her: On/with Robert Walser (Sylph Cahiers No. 18) (Sylph Cahiers No. 18)
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- 2012
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- Robert Walser
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- Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
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- 833.914 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures German fiction 1900- 1900-1990 1945-1990
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- PT2670 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures German literature Individual authors or works 1961-2000
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