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Profile: Elfriede Jelinek

57歲的奧地利女小說(shuō)家、劇作家兼詩(shī)人艾爾芙蕾德-耶利內(nèi)克(Elfriede Jelinek)奪得2004年諾貝爾文學(xué)獎(jiǎng)。近年來(lái),這位以揭露社會(huì)荒謬事件和描繪兩性斗爭(zhēng)的作品而馳名的女作家在德語(yǔ)世界飽受爭(zhēng)議,其劇作上演也屢屢在媒體造成丑聞,她的奧地利同胞們把她看作天才和魔鬼的混合體。

 

Profile: Elfriede Jelinek

Elfriede Jelinek, a "Beelzebub" in her native Austria

The Nobel prize winner Elfriede Jelinek is known as everything from a genius to Beelzebub in her native Austria.

One of the most famous women writing in German she was most controversially quoted in 1980 as saying "Austria is a criminal nation", referring to her country's participation in the crimes of the Third Reich.

Her 1990 novel Wonderful, Wonderful Times addressed that subject.

Set in post-war Austria, she looks at, as she sees it, her country's inability to come to terms with its wartime activities.

One unpleasant character was an SS officer who recalls being "up to the ankles of our riding-boots in blood in Polish villages" and now makes his wife pose for pornographic pictures.

An online travel guide, aboutAustria.org, describes Jelinek as a "proverbial Beelzebub abused for her critical views, especially in Austria".

But it acknowledges the 57-year-old is one of her country's most influential contemporary writers.

Her best known work perhaps is The Piano Teacher, which was turned into a 2001 film by Austrian director Michael Haneke.

French actress Isabelle Huppert plays the repressed , Erika Kohut, a piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory.

In it, Jelinek explores voyeurism and masochism in a most graphic and explicit way.

The author herself studied music and composition at the conservatory - passing her organist diploma in 1971 - before turning to languages and theatre.

There was some surprise that the $1.36m prize went to the Austrian.

Many pundits expected a woman to take this year's prize - Jelinek is only the 10th to do so - but the hot favourites were Algeria's Assia Djebar, Joyce Carol Oates of the US and a Dane, Inger Christensen.

Jelinek said the prize was "surprising and a great honour," the Austrian news agency APA reported.    

(Agencies)

Vocabulary:
 

Beelzebub : The Devil; Satan(魔鬼,鬼王)

Third Reich: 第三帝國(guó)(指希特勒統(tǒng)治下的德國(guó)[1933-1945])

voyeurism
: perversion in which a person receives sexual gratification from seeing the genitalia of others or witnessing others' sexual behavior(窺陰癖者)

masochism
: sexual pleasure obtained from receiving punishment(受虐狂,受虐色情狂)

pundit: someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field(權(quán)威人士;專家,學(xué)者)

 
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