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Fury by Elfriede Jelinek
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $27.53A new play from Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek that deals with the 2015 terror attack on the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo's offices in Paris. In Greek mythology, it is Hera who... -
Rein Gold by Elfriede Jelinek
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Originally written as a libretto for the Berlin State Opera, Elfriede Jelinek's rein GOLD reconstructs the events of Wagner's epic Ring cycle and extends them into the present day. Brunnhilde... -
Lust by Elfriede Jelinek 9781852421830
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42In a quaint Austrian ski resort, things are not quite what they seem. Hermann, the manager of a paper mill, has decided that sexual gratification begins at home. Which means Gerti - his wife and... -
Sports Play by Elfriede Jelinek 9781849434027
Booksplease Price: $28.18With translation assistance and a foreword by Karen Juers-Munby First produced in 1998 at the famous Vienna Burgtheater, the remarkable and provocative Sports Play by Austrian playwright... -
The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89One of Elena Ferrante's Top 40 Best Books by Women Erika Kohut teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory by day. By night she trawls the city's porn shows while her mother, whom she loves and hates... -
Framed by Language by Elfriede Jelinek 9780929497921
RRP: $72.13Booksplease Price: $61.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929497921Author Elfriede JelinekFormat HardbackPage Count 314Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher... -
The Children of the Dead Elfriede Jelinek 9780300281941
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.09The 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 ... -
The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek 9780802144614
Booksplease Price: $26.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802144614Author Elfriede JelinekFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic... -
Women as Lovers by Elfriede Jelinek 9781852422370
RRP: $35.00Booksplease Price: $23.89The setting is an idyllic Alpine village where a woman's underwear factory nestles in the woods. Two factory workers, Brigitte and Paula, dream and talk about finding happiness, a comfortable home... -
The Children of the Dead by Elfriede Jelinek 9780300142150
Booksplease Price: $51.19The 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 ... -
Elfriede Jelinek: Framed by Language by Johns 9781572411456
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $44.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572411456Author JohnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 309Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher Ariadne... -
Greed: A Novel by Elfriede Jelinek 9781583228425
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Nobel Prize in Literature 2004.Book InformationISBN 9781583228425Author Elfriede JelinekFormat... -
Wonderful, Wonderful Times by Elfriede Jelinek 9781852421687
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.66'That's brutal violence on a defenceless person, and quite unnecessary, declares Sophie, and she pulls with an audible tearing sound at the hair of the man lying in an untidy heap on the ground... -
On the Royal Road: The Burgher King Elfriede Jelinek 9780857427786
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $30.73Carefully perched somewhere between tragedy and grotesque, high-pitched and squeamish, Jelinek's play, On the Royal Road, brings into focus the phenomenon of right-wing populism, which spreads like a... -
Rewriting Reality: An Introduction to Elfriede Jelinek by Allyson Fiddler 9781859731437
Booksplease Price: $81.47This first systematic study of the controversial Austrian feminist writer, Elfriede Jelinek, offers an extensive survey and analysis of Jelinek's major texts and a discussion of the literary... -
On the Royal Road - The Burgher King Elfriede Jelinek 9781803092300
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $27.14Carefully perched somewhere between tragedy and grotesque, high-pitched and squeamish, Jelinek's play, On the Royal Road, brings into focus the phenomenon of right-wing populism, which spreads like a... -
«Obscene Fantasies»: Elfriede Jelinek’s Generic Perversions by Brenda Bethman 9781433110603
RRP: $117.98Booksplease Price: $105.50This book examines Elfriede Jelinek’s investigation of Austria’s and Western Europe’s «obscene fantasies» through her «perversion» of generic forms in three of her best-known texts (Die... -
Three Plays: Rechnitz, the Merchant's Contracts, Charges (the Supplicants) by Elfriede Jelinek
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $23.63Although Elfriede Jelinek is an internationally recognised playwright, her plays are difficult to find in English, which makes this new volume all the more valuable. In Rechnitz, a chorus of... -
Her Not All Her: The Cahier Series 18 Elfriede Jelinek 9780956992048
RRP: $27.30Booksplease Price: $19.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956992048Author Elfriede JelinekFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Sylph EditionsPublisher Sylph... -
Theater of the Void: Plasticity, Hauntology, and Nuclear Blast by Teresa Kovacs 9781501781421
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79Theater of the Void explores contemporary German theater in the aftermath of the technology of the atomic bomb. Informed by threats of total annihilation-whether through nuclear technology or, more... -
Theater of the Void: Plasticity, Hauntology, and Nuclear Blast by Teresa Kovacs 9781501781438
RRP: $226.20Booksplease Price: $181.97Theater of the Void explores contemporary German theater in the aftermath of the technology of the atomic bomb. Informed by threats of total annihilation-whether through nuclear technology or, more... -
The Traumatic Surreal: Germanophone Women Artists and Surrealism After the Second World War by Patricia Allmer
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $120.72The traumatic surreal is the first major study to examine the ground-breaking role played by Germanophone women artists working in surrealist traditions in responding to the traumatic events and... -
The Traumatic Surreal: Germanophone Women Artists and Surrealism After the Second World War by Patricia Allmer 9781526178831
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $46.49The traumatic surreal is the first major study to examine the ground-breaking role played by Germanophone women artists working in surrealist traditions in responding to the traumatic events and... -
Perspectives on Gender in Post-1945 German Literature by Georgina Paul 9781571134233
Booksplease Price: $212.61Masculinist and feminist worldviews in post-1945 German literature, and the possibility of a dynamic reconceptualization of human subjectivity. Rooted in Enlightenment rationalism, modernity tends... -
Elfriede Jelinek in the Arena: Sport, Cultural Understanding and Translation to Page and Stage (Austrian Studies 22) by Allyson Fiddler 9781781881163
Booksplease Price: $109.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781881163Author Allyson FiddlerFormat PaperbackImprint Modern Humanities Research... -
Anti-War Theatre After Brecht: Dialectical Aesthetics in the Twenty-First Century by Lara Stevens 9781137538871
Booksplease Price: $176.59Examining the ways in which contemporary Western theatre protests against the 'War on Terror', this book analyses six twenty-first century plays that respond to the post-9/11 military operations in... -
Realities and Fantasies of German Female Leadership: From Maria Antonia of Saxony to Angela Merkel by Elisabeth Krimmer 9781640141568
RRP: $64.33Booksplease Price: $59.30A collection of essays achieving a deeper understanding of the historical roots and theoretical assumptions that inform the realities and fantasies of German female leadership. The Western... -
Traces of Dialogue: Language, Identity and Form in European Postdramatic Theatre Mads Thygesen 9781350518179
Booksplease Price: $167.02This book offers a captivating exploration of the evolving dynamics of language, dialogue and identity in modern theatre, highlighting the pioneering contributions of European playwrights Martin... -
"Cat and Mouse" and "Services" by Gregory Motton 9780413707604
Booksplease Price: $28.18Two plays by contemporary dramatists Gregory Motton and Elfriede Jelinek Cat and Mouse (Sheep) by Gregory Motton: Gengis starts a price war with the shop next door and ends up running the country... -
The Literary and Cultural Rhetoric of Victimhood: Western Europe, 1970-2005 by Fatima Naqvi 9781349536351
Booksplease Price: $91.14In a series of paradigmatic readings of Rene Girard, Peter Sloterdijk, Michael Haneke, Anselm Kiefer, Michel Houellebecq, Elfriede Jelinek, Giorgio Agamben, Naqvi examines the current fascination... -
The Legend Of The Holy Drinker by Joseph Roth
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.10'One of the greatest European novelists of the century' Sunday Times Andreas is an alcoholic and a vagrant who lives under a bridge. Downtrodden, submerged at the bottom of society, he lives a... -
Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Plays by Women: The Early Twenty-First Century by Penny Farfan
RRP: $56.45Booksplease Price: $53.90This book foregrounds some of the ways in which women playwrights from across a range of contexts and working in a variety of forms and styles are illuminating the contemporary world while also... -
Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Plays by Women: The Early Twenty-First Century by Penny Farfan 9780472074358
Booksplease Price: $147.32This book foregrounds some of the ways in which women playwrights from across a range of contexts and working in a variety of forms and styles are illuminating the contemporary world while also... -
Michael Haneke: Interviews by Roy Grundmann 9781496808691
Booksplease Price: $172.77Spanning five decades and twenty-four films, director Michael Haneke's career is one of the most significant in the history of European art cinema. However, critical reception has long lagged behind... -
The Literary and Cultural Rhetoric of Victimhood: Western Europe, 1970-2005 by Fatima Naqvi 9781403975706
Booksplease Price: $91.14In a series of paradigmatic readings of Rene Girard, Peter Sloterdijk, Michael Haneke, Anselm Kiefer, Michel Houellebecq, Elfriede Jelinek, Giorgio Agamben, Naqvi examines the current fascination... -
Michael Haneke: Interviews by Roy Grundmann 9781496828408
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70Spanning five decades and twenty-four films, director Michael Haneke's career is one of the most significant in the history of European art cinema. However, critical reception has long lagged behind... -
The Hotel Years: Wanderings in Europe between the Wars Joseph Roth 9781783788477
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.88'A hugely significant and wonderfully haunting collection' William Boyd In the 1920s and 1930s, Joseph Roth travelled extensively in Europe, living in hotels and writing about the towns through... -
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25'One of the greatest novels ever written' Philippe Sands Roth's masterpiece: an epic, moving account of the final days of the Austro-Hungarian empire, told through the fortunes of one family. ... -
Plays by Women: v.10 by Annie Castledine 9780413680006
Booksplease Price: $52.46Volume Ten in Methuen's highly successful series of Plays by Women provides the second selection of international plays by theatre director Annie Castledine. It encompasses Diana Quick's adaptation... -
Against the Horizon: Feminism and Postwar Austrian Women Writers by Jacqueline Vansant 9780313258633
Booksplease Price: $120.18This is the only English-language book to deal in depth with Austrian women writers of the postwar and contemporary period. It is a comparative study of the works of Marlen Haushofer, Ingeborg...