Women As Lovers
Author: Elfriede Jelinek
Translator: Soyeon Ryu
Publisher: Dareunuri
272 pages.
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About This Book
From Publishers Weekly
This brief, pitiless novel advances such a narrow, bleak vision of the
human race that one wonders why its author, who apparently finds everything
pointless, saw the point in writing it. In oddly punctuated, repetitive prose
reminiscent of Gertrude Stein's but lacking Stein's energetic compassion,
Jelinek's (Lust and The Piano Teacher) latest doesn't have much good to say
about love or marriage or sex or babies. And for Paula and Brigette, these are
the only escapes from a life--if one can call it a life--of sewing bras in a
factory in the mountains of Austria. It's hard to imagine even the pretense of
love in a marriage to a drunken lout like Erich, the rotting apple of his sad,
miserable parents' eye, or to fat and stupid Heinz. What shallow, covetous
creatures women are, is what Jelinek seems to say. It doesn't matter if they
don't enjoy sex; they don't deserve it, and anyway, someday we'll all be dead.
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