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Children of the Dead by Elfriede Jelinek (2024, Hardcover)

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PublisherYale University Press

ISBN-100300142153

ISBN-139780300142150

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Book TitleChildren of the Dead

Number of Pages496 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicLiterary

Publication Year2024

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorElfriede Jelinek

Book SeriesThe Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1 in

Item Weight31.3 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Reviews"The surface of [Jelinek's] prose cracks and bursts . . . fissured by phantasmagorical description, gallows humor, multilingual puns, and scouring sarcasm. . . . Jelinek's novel is finally . . . a furious accumulation of lost moments and possible outcomes, an enormous, spectral kaleidoscope erected before the unfathomable."--Dustin Illingworth, Washington Post Featured in the Financial Times ' "Best summer books of 2024: Fiction in translation" "In this monumental zombie novel from Nobel winner Jelinek . . . readers will delight in Jelinek's wild Joycean wordplay, elegantly translated by Honegger. . . . Full of unexpected beauty, this challenging and troubling story is one to savor."-- Publishers Weekly Praise for Elfriede Jelinek: "Jelinek's work is brave, adventurous, witty, antagonistic and devastatingly right about the sorriness of human existence, and her contempt is expressed with surprising chirpiness: it's a wild ride."--Lucy Ellmann, The Guardian "Language and life and its values--its debts and deaths, its violence and vicissitudes, the dense cacophony of its hidden meanings--are at the core of Jelinek's monumental oeuvre. . . . A Jelinek book is a visceral reading experience, one that provokes a passionate response."--Rhian Sasseen, The Point "Like her Austrian forebears, including Karl Kraus, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Peter Handke, Jelinek investigates the uses and abuses of language by staging its semantic slipperiness. . . . As the Nobel Committee put it, Jelinek's novels and plays 'reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power,' deconstructing and de-naturalizing the--in her words--'trivial myths' on which large stretches of Western culture are founded."--Xan Holt, Music and Literature "Jelinek tells hard stories with a concerned but cold eye. . . . [She writes] with cinematic detail, but few of the sentimental filters or cushions that pop culture movies use to spare the nerves of audiences."-- New York Times "An intensely learned and literary writer; all her texts live in and through the texts of others. . . What Jelinek has fashioned [in Greed ] is an immensely expressive medium that goes to the very edge of coherence, but never beyond it."--Nicholas Spice, London Review of Books, "The surface of [Jelinek's] prose cracks and bursts . . . fissured by phantasmagorical description, gallows humor, multilingual puns, and scouring sarcasm. . . . Jelinek's novel is finally . . . a furious accumulation of lost moments and possible outcomes, an enormous, spectral kaleidoscope erected before the unfathomable."--Dustin Illingworth, Washington Post "An unlikely spin on zombie narratives [with] searching questions about how a society decides to remember--or forget--its worst atrocities."-- Financial Times , "Best Summer Books of 2024" " Children of the Dead is a tale of death, disgust, and despair. But it's no bummer; it is playful and proudly strange. And it offers a forceful riposte to a culture--one both historical and contemporary--that abjures the buried and the bygone. . . . A serious, complex work that exemplifies both [Jelinek's] stylistic dexterity and her powerful sway as a social and political critic."--John Semley, The Nation "In this monumental zombie novel from Nobel winner Jelinek . . . readers will delight in Jelinek's wild Joycean wordplay, elegantly translated by Honegger. . . . Full of unexpected beauty, this challenging and troubling story is one to savor."-- Publishers Weekly "A masterful translation. . . . Hypnotic and unsettling, Jelinek's darkly satirical novel yokes avant-gardism and popular culture together, offering an unflinching reckoning with history. . . . It feels more urgent and relevant than ever."--Alexander Howard, NRI Affairs , "Best Books of 2024" Praise for Elfriede Jelinek: "Jelinek's work is brave, adventurous, witty, antagonistic and devastatingly right about the sorriness of human existence, and her contempt is expressed with surprising chirpiness: it's a wild ride."--Lucy Ellmann, The Guardian "Language and life and its values--its debts and deaths, its violence and vicissitudes, the dense cacophony of its hidden meanings--are at the core of Jelinek's monumental oeuvre. . . . A Jelinek book is a visceral reading experience, one that provokes a passionate response."--Rhian Sasseen, The Point "Like her Austrian forebears, including Karl Kraus, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Peter Handke, Jelinek investigates the uses and abuses of language by staging its semantic slipperiness. . . . As the Nobel Committee put it, Jelinek's novels and plays 'reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power,' deconstructing and de-naturalizing the--in her words--'trivial myths' on which large stretches of Western culture are founded."--Xan Holt, Music and Literature "Jelinek tells hard stories with a concerned but cold eye. . . . [She writes] with cinematic detail, but few of the sentimental filters or cushions that pop culture movies use to spare the nerves of audiences."-- New York Times "An intensely learned and literary writer; all her texts live in and through the texts of others. . . What Jelinek has fashioned [in Greed ] is an immensely expressive medium that goes to the very edge of coherence, but never beyond it."--Nicholas Spice, London Review of Books, "The surface of [Jelinek's] prose cracks and bursts . . . fissured by phantasmagorical description, gallows humor, multilingual puns, and scouring sarcasm. . . . Jelinek's novel is finally . . . a furious accumulation of lost moments and possible outcomes, an enormous, spectral kaleidoscope erected before the unfathomable."--Dustin Illingworth, Washington Post "In this monumental zombie novel from Nobel winner Jelinek . . . readers will delight in Jelinek's wild Joycean wordplay, elegantly translated by Honegger. . . . Full of unexpected beauty, this challenging and troubling story is one to savor."-- Publishers Weekly Praise for Elfriede Jelinek: "Jelinek's work is brave, adventurous, witty, antagonistic and devastatingly right about the sorriness of human existence, and her contempt is expressed with surprising chirpiness: it's a wild ride."--Lucy Ellmann, The Guardian "Language and life and its values--its debts and deaths, its violence and vicissitudes, the dense cacophony of its hidden meanings--are at the core of Jelinek's monumental oeuvre. . . . A Jelinek book is a visceral reading experience, one that provokes a passionate response."--Rhian Sasseen, The Point "Like her Austrian forebears, including Karl Kraus, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Peter Handke, Jelinek investigates the uses and abuses of language by staging its semantic slipperiness. . . . As the Nobel Committee put it, Jelinek's novels and plays 'reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power,' deconstructing and de-naturalizing the--in her words--'trivial myths' on which large stretches of Western culture are founded."--Xan Holt, Music and Literature "Jelinek tells hard stories with a concerned but cold eye. . . . [She writes] with cinematic detail, but few of the sentimental filters or cushions that pop culture movies use to spare the nerves of audiences."-- New York Times "An intensely learned and literary writer; all her texts live in and through the texts of others. . . What Jelinek has fashioned [in Greed ] is an immensely expressive medium that goes to the very edge of coherence, but never beyond it."--Nicholas Spice, London Review of Books, Praise for Elfriede Jelinek: "Her musical flow of voices and counter-voices . . . with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power."--Nobel Prize committee, "The surface of [Jelinek's] prose cracks and bursts . . . fissured by phantasmagorical description, gallows humor, multilingual puns, and scouring sarcasm. . . . Jelinek's novel is finally . . . a furious accumulation of lost moments and possible outcomes, an enormous, spectral kaleidoscope erected before the unfathomable."--Dustin Illingworth, Washington Post Featured in the Financial Times ' "Best summer books of 2024: Fiction in translation" " Children of the Dead is a tale of death, disgust, and despair. But it's no bummer; it is playful and proudly strange. And it offers a forceful riposte to a culture--one both historical and contemporary--that abjures the buried and the bygone. . . . A serious, complex work that exemplifies both [Jelinek's] stylistic dexterity and her powerful sway as a social and political critic."--John Semley, The Nation "In this monumental zombie novel from Nobel winner Jelinek . . . readers will delight in Jelinek's wild Joycean wordplay, elegantly translated by Honegger. . . . Full of unexpected beauty, this challenging and troubling story is one to savor."-- Publishers Weekly Praise for Elfriede Jelinek: "Jelinek's work is brave, adventurous, witty, antagonistic and devastatingly right about the sorriness of human existence, and her contempt is expressed with surprising chirpiness: it's a wild ride."--Lucy Ellmann, The Guardian "Language and life and its values--its debts and deaths, its violence and vicissitudes, the dense cacophony of its hidden meanings--are at the core of Jelinek's monumental oeuvre. . . . A Jelinek book is a visceral reading experience, one that provokes a passionate response."--Rhian Sasseen, The Point "Like her Austrian forebears, including Karl Kraus, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Peter Handke, Jelinek investigates the uses and abuses of language by staging its semantic slipperiness. . . . As the Nobel Committee put it, Jelinek's novels and plays 'reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power,' deconstructing and de-naturalizing the--in her words--'trivial myths' on which large stretches of Western culture are founded."--Xan Holt, Music and Literature "Jelinek tells hard stories with a concerned but cold eye. . . . [She writes] with cinematic detail, but few of the sentimental filters or cushions that pop culture movies use to spare the nerves of audiences."-- New York Times "An intensely learned and literary writer; all her texts live in and through the texts of others. . . What Jelinek has fashioned [in Greed ] is an immensely expressive medium that goes to the very edge of coherence, but never beyond it."--Nicholas Spice, London Review of Books, Praise for Elfriede Jelinek: "Jelinek's work is brave, adventurous, witty, antagonistic and devastatingly right about the sorriness of human existence, and her contempt is expressed with surprising chirpiness: it's a wild ride."--Lucy Ellmann, The Guardian "Language and life and its values--its debts and deaths, its violence and vicissitudes, the dense cacophony of its hidden meanings--are at the core of Jelinek's monumental oeuvre. . . . A Jelinek book is a visceral reading experience, one that provokes a passionate response."--Rhian Sasseen, The Point "Like her Austrian forebears, including Karl Kraus, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Peter Handke, Jelinek investigates the uses and abuses of language by staging its semantic slipperiness. . . . As the Nobel Committee put it, Jelinek's novels and plays 'reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power,' deconstructing and de-naturalizing the--in her words--'trivial myths' on which large stretches of Western culture are founded."--Xan Holt, Music and Literature "Jelinek tells hard stories with a concerned but cold eye. . . . [She writes] with cinematic detail, but few of the sentimental filters or cushions that pop culture movies use to spare the nerves of audiences."-- New York Times "An intensely learned and literary writer; all her texts live in and through the texts of others. . . What Jelinek has fashioned [in Greed ] is an immensely expressive medium that goes to the very edge of coherence, but never beyond it."--Nicholas Spice, London Review of Books, "The surface of [Jelinek's] prose cracks and bursts . . . fissured by phantasmagorical description, gallows humor, multilingual puns, and scouring sarcasm. . . . Jelinek's novel is finally . . . a furious accumulation of lost moments and possible outcomes, an enormous, spectral kaleidoscope erected before the unfathomable."--Dustin Illingworth, Washington Post "An unlikely spin on zombie narratives [with] searching questions about how a society decides to remember--or forget--its worst atrocities."-- Financial Times , "Best Summer Books of 2024" " Children of the Dead is a tale of death, disgust, and despair. But it's no bummer; it is playful and proudly strange. And it offers a forceful riposte to a culture--one both historical and contemporary--that abjures the buried and the bygone. . . . A serious, complex work that exemplifies both [Jelinek's] stylistic dexterity and her powerful sway as a social and political critic."--John Semley, The Nation "In this monumental zombie novel from Nobel winner Jelinek . . . readers will delight in Jelinek's wild Joycean wordplay, elegantly translated by Honegger. . . . Full of unexpected beauty, this challenging and troubling story is one to savor."-- Publishers Weekly Praise for Elfriede Jelinek: "Jelinek's work is brave, adventurous, witty, antagonistic and devastatingly right about the sorriness of human existence, and her contempt is expressed with surprising chirpiness: it's a wild ride."--Lucy Ellmann, The Guardian "Language and life and its values--its debts and deaths, its violence and vicissitudes, the dense cacophony of its hidden meanings--are at the core of Jelinek's monumental oeuvre. . . . A Jelinek book is a visceral reading experience, one that provokes a passionate response."--Rhian Sasseen, The Point "Like her Austrian forebears, including Karl Kraus, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Peter Handke, Jelinek investigates the uses and abuses of language by staging its semantic slipperiness. . . . As the Nobel Committee put it, Jelinek's novels and plays 'reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power,' deconstructing and de-naturalizing the--in her words--'trivial myths' on which large stretches of Western culture are founded."--Xan Holt, Music and Literature "Jelinek tells hard stories with a concerned but cold eye. . . . [She writes] with cinematic detail, but few of the sentimental filters or cushions that pop culture movies use to spare the nerves of audiences."-- New York Times "An intensely learned and literary writer; all her texts live in and through the texts of others. . . What Jelinek has fashioned [in Greed ] is an immensely expressive medium that goes to the very edge of coherence, but never beyond it."--Nicholas Spice, London Review of Books, "In this monumental zombie novel from Nobel winner Jelinek . . . readers will delight in Jelinek's wild Joycean wordplay, elegantly translated by Honegger. . . . Full of unexpected beauty, this challenging and troubling story is one to savor."-- Publishers Weekly Praise for Elfriede Jelinek: "Jelinek's work is brave, adventurous, witty, antagonistic and devastatingly right about the sorriness of human existence, and her contempt is expressed with surprising chirpiness: it's a wild ride."--Lucy Ellmann, The Guardian "Language and life and its values--its debts and deaths, its violence and vicissitudes, the dense cacophony of its hidden meanings--are at the core of Jelinek's monumental oeuvre. . . . A Jelinek book is a visceral reading experience, one that provokes a passionate response."--Rhian Sasseen, The Point "Like her Austrian forebears, including Karl Kraus, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Peter Handke, Jelinek investigates the uses and abuses of language by staging its semantic slipperiness. . . . As the Nobel Committee put it, Jelinek's novels and plays 'reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power,' deconstructing and de-naturalizing the--in her words--'trivial myths' on which large stretches of Western culture are founded."--Xan Holt, Music and Literature "Jelinek tells hard stories with a concerned but cold eye. . . . [She writes] with cinematic detail, but few of the sentimental filters or cushions that pop culture movies use to spare the nerves of audiences."-- New York Times "An intensely learned and literary writer; all her texts live in and through the texts of others. . . What Jelinek has fashioned [in Greed ] is an immensely expressive medium that goes to the very edge of coherence, but never beyond it."--Nicholas Spice, London Review of Books

Dewey Decimal833.92

SynopsisThe magnum opus of 2004 Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek--a spectral journey through the catastrophic history embedded in the landscape of Austria "The surface of [Jelinek's] prose cracks and bursts . . . fissured by phantasmagorical description, gallows humor, multilingual puns, and scouring sarcasm. . . . Jelinek's novel is finally . . . a furious accumulation of lost moments and possible outcomes, an enormous, spectral kaleidoscope erected before the unfathomable."--Dustin Illingworth, Washington Post The Alpenrose is a mountain resort nestled in Austria's scenic landscape among historic churches and castles. It is a vacation idyll that attracts tourists from all over Europe. It is also a mass burial site. Amid the snow-topped peaks and panoramic vistas, ghosts haunt the forest: Edgar Gstranz, a young skier who died in a car crash; Gudrun Bichler, a philosophy student who committed suicide in her bathtub; and Karin Frenzel, a widow who (perhaps) died in a bus accident. As the three slip in and out of the hotel, engaging unsuspecting tourists and seeking a way to return to life, the soil begins to crack under their feet as the dead of the Holocaust awaken: zombies determined to exact their revenge. Scrupulously rendered for the first time in English by Gitta Honegger, The Children of the Dead takes readers on a mind-bending ride through time, space, and memory. Concocted from experimental theater, splatter film, Gothic literature, philosophy, religion, and more, Jelinek's phantasmagorical masterwork is a fierce confrontation with our fraught legacies in the name of the innocent dead., The magnum opus of 2004 Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek--a spectral journey through the catastrophic history embedded in the landscape of Austria

LC Classification NumberPT2670.E46C4 2024