Elfriede Jelinek citáty
Elfriede Jelinek
Datum narození: 20. říjen 1946
Další jména: 耶利內克
Elfriede Jelineková, nepřechýleně Elfriede Jelinek je rakouská spisovatelka, která žije ve Vídni a Mnichově. V roce 2004 obdržela Nobelovu cenu za literaturu za „muzikální proud hlasů a protihlasů v románech a dramatech, s jedinečnou jazykovou vášnivostí odhalují absurditu a deformující moc sociálních klišé“.
Citáty Elfriede Jelinek
„He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.“
— Elfriede Jelinek, kniha Wonderful, Wonderful Times
Zdroj: Wonderful, Wonderful Times
„Vice is basically the love of failure.“
Zdroj: Pianolærerinnen
„Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.“
— Elfriede Jelinek, kniha The Piano Teacher
P 23
The Piano Teacher (1988)
„In the old days people had no time to harm the environment because they were busy doing harm to themselves, in the War, for instance.“
— Elfriede Jelinek, kniha Wonderful, Wonderful Times
60
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)
„weak are defeated by the strong in the world of Nature. A reed by the north wind, for instance. And silence by the forest.“
— Elfriede Jelinek, kniha Wonderful, Wonderful Times
109
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)
„Death the Laveller annihilates all distinctions.“
— Elfriede Jelinek, kniha Wonderful, Wonderful Times
250
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)
„For the first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.“
— Elfriede Jelinek, kniha The Piano Teacher
P 5
The Piano Teacher (1988)
„There are no holidays for art; and that’s just fine with the artist.“
— Elfriede Jelinek, kniha The Piano Teacher
P 29
The Piano Teacher (1988)
„There is no such thing as the universal ‘Man’ never has been, never will be, there is the worker and there is the one who exploits the worker and those who abet him.“
— Elfriede Jelinek, kniha Wonderful, Wonderful Times
P 219
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)
„Art and order, the relative that refuse to relate.“
— Elfriede Jelinek, kniha The Piano Teacher
P 124
The Piano Teacher (1988)
„The artist is lonesome and admits his solitude.“
— Elfriede Jelinek, kniha The Piano Teacher
P 24
The Piano Teacher (1988)
„Pain itself is merely a consequence of the desire for pleasure, the desire t destroy, to annihilate; in its supreme form, pain is a variety of pleasure.“
— Elfriede Jelinek, kniha The Piano Teacher
P 107
The Piano Teacher (1988)
„After all, people with a herd instinct hold mediocrity in high esteem. They praise it as having great value. They believe they are strong because they are the majority. The middling level has no terrors, no anxieties. They huddle together, indulging in the illusion of warmth. If you’re alone with nothing, and certainly not yourself. And how content they are with that state of affairs!“
— Elfriede Jelinek, kniha The Piano Teacher
P 66
The Piano Teacher (1988)
„Time stands still for man and woman alike, it is a good moment, because Time usually makes everything worse, poor people grow old, rich people can buy a little time but they can'hold it up for good, it always catches up with them. In the last analysis, Time is democratic.“
— Elfriede Jelinek, kniha Wonderful, Wonderful Times
123
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)
„The world would be a lot better off if it paid more attention to its philosophers and artists than to its own tiny egotistic spirit, which lacks an overview. People should place their belief in Beethoven and Socrates.“
— Elfriede Jelinek, kniha Wonderful, Wonderful Times
p 40
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)
