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Three Plays
Rechnitz, The Merchant's Contracts, Charges (The Supplicants)
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Artikel-Nr:
9780857427120
Veröffentl:
2019
Erscheinungsdatum:
08.11.2019
Seiten:
566
Autor:
Elfriede Jelinek
Gewicht:
521 g
Format:
198x131x37 mm
Sprache:
Deutsch
Beschreibung:
Elfriede Jelinek is a leading member of postwar Austria's first generation of artists. She is the author of several novels and plays, including On the Royal Road, published by Seagull Books. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004.
Although Elfriede Jelinek is an internationally recognised playwright, her plays are difficult to find in English, which makes this new volume all the more valuable. In Rechnitz, a chorus of messengers reports on the circumstances of the massacre of 180 Jews, an actual event that took place near the Austrian-Hungarian border town of Rechnitz. In The Merchant's Contracts, Jelinek brings us a comedy of economics, where the babble and media spin of spectators leave small investors alienated and bearing the brunt of the economic crisis. And in Charges (The Supplicants), Jelinek responds to the immeasurable suffering among refugees fleeing death, destruction and political suppression, and asks what refugees want, how we as a society view them, and what political, moral and personal obligations they impose on us.