Women as Lovers Elfriede Jelinek, Author, Martin Chalmers, Translator Serpent's Tail $ (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS. Piano Teacher (Old . · In her third-person narrative Women as Lovers (like in her other works) Elfriede Jelinek plays with clichés, in this case lower-class girls just out of school who are prepared to do almost anything to catch a husband and achieve through them the socioeconomic status that they feel out of their own reach. In the s this may still have been a rather common practice (and it hasn’t been completely Author: Edith Lagraziana. In Lust () Jelinek portrays the impossibility of female desire through the wife of a factory owner who is treated as property by her husband. Jelinek's plays address many of the same themes as.
Women as Lovers (Elfriede Jelinek) Eileen (Ottessa Moshfegh) Masks (Fumiko Enchi) The Obscene Madame D (Hilda Hilst) Dark Spring (Unica Zürn) The Wall (Marlen Haushofer) The Book of Night Women (Marlon James) The Incarnations (Susan Barker) Thus Were Their Faces (Silvina Ocampo). Jelinek, Elfriede, Preferred Title Liebhaberinnen. English Title Women as lovers / Elfriede Jelinek ; translated by Martin Chalmers. Format Book Published London ; New York: Serpent's Tail, c Description p. ; 20 cm. Notes Translated from German. First published in as: Die Liebhaberinnen. ISBN. Women as Lovers. Masks. Elfriede Jelinek with Martin Chalmers (Translator) fiction challenging slow-paced. pages. Buy Browse editions. United States Bookshop US. Other countries Bookshop UK Blackwell's. The StoryGraph is an affiliate of the featured links. We earn commission on any purchases made.
Elfriede Jelinek: Die Liebhaberinnen (Women as Lovers) Depending on how you look at it, this is a cynical look at love and romance and the relationships between the sexes or a superb parody thereof. I’m going for the latter. Jelinek tells the simple and bitter story of two women who live in rural Austria and whose options are very limited. In her third-person narrative Women as Lovers (like in her other works) Elfriede Jelinek plays with clichés, in this case lower-class girls just out of school who are prepared to do almost anything to catch a husband and achieve through them the socioeconomic status that they feel out of their own reach. In the s this may still have been a rather common practice (and it hasn’t been completely abandoned since) because self-confident and self-determined female role models only began to. “Marriage in bourgeois life is almost a legalised prostitution”. Elfriede Jelinek took this Karl Marx line and beat it to death as a novel in “Women as Lovers”. The setting is an Alpine village, where the whole living purpose of protagonists Brigitte and Paula is finding a man to secure a socio economical standing.
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