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- Hardcover
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- The Children of the Dead Hardcover 2024 by Elfriede Jelinek
- Year Printed
- 2024
- ISBN
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Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300142153
ISBN-13
9780300142150
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23062163584
Product Key Features
Book Title
Children of the Dead
Number of Pages
496 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Literary
Publication Year
2024
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
The Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
Format
Hardcover
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1 in
Item Weight
31.3 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
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23
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 Decimal
833.92
Synopsis
The 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 Number
PT2670.E46C4 2024
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- .***7 (27)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseBook arrived in excellent condition—clean, well-preserved, and exactly as described. The book looks great, no marks or damage and well kept pages. Overall high quality - like new and book is in great shape. Seller clearly takes pride in their inventory. Shipping was quick, packaging was very secure, and the price was unbeatable. Clearly handled with care. I’m excited to dive into it! Highly recommend this seller and will definitely purchase from them again. Very happy …A+ experienceManufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media Paperback by E... (#204955310921)
- n***y (190)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseI don't like how the product was shipped, the box was completely crushed during shipping and my heart sank a bit because I just knew all of the books were going to be damaged, however, the books being shrink wrapped to a piece of cardboard saved them all and despite what the box looked like (no photos unfortunatly) the books are prestine. Very happy with the collection. Saving seller for future purchases.