Vienna Roast (on Elfriede Jelinek)

The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek, Translated by Joachim Neugroschel. London: Serpent’s Tail. 280 pages. $15; Wonderful, Wonderful Times by Elfriede Jelinek, Translated by Michael Hulse. London: Serpent’s Tail. 253 pages. $15.

published in From Bookforum, June-September 2005: 44-45.

In the English-speaking world, the awarding of the 2004 Nobel Prize for literature to the Austrian novelist-playwright Elfriede Jelinek has been met—when met […]