Greed
Elfriede Jelinek
Kurt Janisch is an ambitious, frustrated, country policeman. Things are not going right in his life. But a country policeman gets talking to a lot of people in the line of duty – particulary women. Lonely, middle-aged women, women with a bit of property perhaps… matters go from bad to worse. Someone sees too much, knows too much. Soon there’s a body in a lake and a murderer to be caught.
‘Greed’ is Elfriede Jelinek’s most accessible novel since ‘The Piano Teacher’. She gives the reader a lot more to think about: the ecological costs of affluence, the inescapable burden and inadequacy of everyday words, the exploitative nature of relationships between men and women.
But as always Jelinek gives the reader a lot more to think about: the ecological costs of affluence, the inescapable burden and inadequacy of our everyday words, the exploitative nature of relations between men and women, the impossibility of life without relationships. A meditative reflection on ageing, Greed is another chapter in Jelinek’s chronicling of her love/hate relationship with Austria.
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Greed is a 2000 novel by the Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek. It was the first novel of hers to be translated into English after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, and also the first book of hers to be translated into English in seven years.
This is a nicely presented volume in good condition. Highly readable, highly collectible
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