Wonderful, Wonderful Times

Elfriede Jelinek

1980

Café Sport is another scene. A scene, because that is where the artists and intellectuals go to be seen. Taking part is what matters, not winning. It is like sport, which is where the café got its name. Many have already lost their faith in Art, in spite of the fact that it was they alone and no one else who were predestined for it. They practise…

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Elfriede Jelinek

b. 1946

Austrian novelist and playwright Elfriede Jelinek is considered one of her country’s most talented and outspoken writers. A feminist and social critic whose work often addresses female sexuality and abuse, she received the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature for her body of work, which encompasses many novels and plays as well as translations. Jelinek received the Franz Kafka Prize, among other literary prizes.

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