Holy smokes, it's almost the middle of 2016! I'm very happy with my discovery for June'sRead the Nobels freebie wallpaper calendar. If it's the first time you're hearing about this, these calendar wallpapers are a fun monthly project I cooked up for myself and is a sneaky way of promoting the Read the Nobels Reading Challenge for 2016. I select an author who has won the Nobel Prize Literature, a book cover, and a quote.
About Elfriede Jelinek
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| Elfreide Jelinek, 2004 |
I was quite drawn in by the fact that Jelinek is polarizing with her work which explores the themes of sexuality, sexual abuse, and powerplay of the sexes. One of her most popular works, Die Klavierspielerin (The Piano Teacher*), the featured book in this month's wallpaper, showcases this quite well. See the synopsis here:
The Piano Teacher* is a searing portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires. Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the prestigious and formal Vienna Conservatory, who still lives with her domineering and possessive mother. Her life appears boring, but Erika, a quiet thirty-eight-year-old, secretly visits Turkish peep shows at night and watched sadomasochistic films. Meanwhile, a handsome, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old student has become enamored with Erika and sets out to seduce her. She resists him at first but then the dark passions roiling under the piano teacher s subdued exterior explode in a release of perversity, violence, and degradation."
The 2001 movie by Austrian director Michael Haneke, The Piano Teacher (movie), was based on Jelinek's book. It won numerous awards in the 2001 Cannes Film Festival including the Grand Prix, best actress and best actor.
I have not read any of Jelinek's work but am sufficiently intrigued based on this one book.
Would you consider reading Elfriede Jelinek?
More links about Elfriede Jelinek:
Would you consider reading Elfriede Jelinek?
More links about Elfriede Jelinek:
- Nobel Prize - Bibliography
- Wikipedia
- Books by Jelinek that have been reviewed on Read the Nobels blog
Go ahead and download this month's wallpaper!
* Affiliate links
Author photo: By The original uploader was Ghuengsberg at English Wikipedia (Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons.) [CC BY-SA 2.5-2.0-1.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5-2.0-1.0), GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons
Past wallpapers:
- May wallpaper: featured 1968 Laureate Yasunari Kawabata's Beauty and Sadness*
- April wallpaper: featured 1909 Laureate Selma Lagerlöf's The Wonderful Adventures of Nils*
- March wallpaper: featured 1907 Laureate Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book*
- February wallpaper: featured 2013 Laureate Alice Munro's Runaway*
- January wallpaper : featured the first edition cover and a quote from 1982 Laureate Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude*
Get some Nobel Prize winning literature in your reading lists! All it takes is one book for the entire year. Click to join the challenge RIGHT HERE!
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