Quotes from Elfriede Jelinek

Der bequeme Fernsehstuhl breitet weit die Arme aus, leise ertönt die Signation zur Zeit im Bild, nüchtern regt sich der Nachrichtensprecher über seiner Krawatte. Auf dem Beistelltisch in beispielgebender Fülle und Buntheit eine sortierte Schüsselsammlung mit Naschereien, aus der sich die Damen abwechselnd oder zugleich bedienen. Wenn sie leer ist, wird sie sogleich nachgefüllt, es ist wie im Schlaraffenland, wo auch nichts zuende geht und nichts anfängt.

Jednak kiedy udaje si? w uczciw? podró? w g??b siebie, zmuszony jest stwierdzi?, ?e jest tam tak mroczno, i? nie bardzo wiadomo, gdzie cz?owiek trafi?... Mo?na tak dla zabicia czasu, ale ten ucieka na sam nasz widok.

V?i tâm tr?ng h? h?i, Erika nói suy cho cùng b?n ch?t c?a tình yêu c?ng chính là c?c ?i?m c?a s? t?m th??ng.

Ng??i ?àn bà có thôi thúc trao t?ng t?t c? tình yêu và gi? t? giá.

não sabe como pode amor ser tão mal recompensado, que é como quem diz o seu amor. Esperamos sempre do nosso trabalho a recompensa. Acreditamos que o trabalho dos outros não precisa de ser recompensado, esperamos poder pagá-lo mais barato.

Najperverznije što je ljudsko bi?e dosada smislilo, ali i vidjelo, medo je na biciklu.

Erica tem receio que tudo fique como está e tem receio que algo se possa vir a alterar. Luta violentamente para conseguir respirar, uma espécie de ataque de asma, e depois não sabe que fazer com tanto ar.

The mob not only grabs hold of art without being entitled to do so, but it also enters the artist. It takes up residence inside the artist and smashes a few holes in the wall, windows to the outer world: The mob wants to be seen.

Many young people are still driven to art, as in olden times. Most of them are driven by their parents, who know nothing about art—only that it exists.

For Erika, the most profound evidence of love is failure.

Mentally damaged people need more room than the normal sort, they can't be put off with excuses, and they need at least as much space to run around in as a medium-sized sheep dog.

Samo te smrt može sprije?iti da se posvetiš umjetnosti.

Only yesterday an express train tore up a whole flock of sheep not far from here, over forty dead animals, flung through the air like cotton-wool balls, the good shepherd fallen asleep drunk somewhere, the dog in the field alone, not a hope. Now the shepherd has to bear joint responsibility for the whole loss, or don't you think he bears a responsibility, dear television audience, write and let us know what you think, it's your views that count.

was stört, ist die Zeit, die seit ihrer Geburt schon vergangen ist ! Besonders hier, wo es hell ist... Doch das Licht der Liebe ... ist auf sie gefallen, hat sie als ein im Fallen schon aufgeplatztes Sackerl Abfall auf den Boden geworfen.

Pa i reproduciranje je jedan oblik stvaralaštva. Oni koji sviraju uvijek za?injaju juhu svoga sviranja ne?im vlastitim, ne?im što pripada samo njima. Njihova krv struji tom glazbom. Svaki izvo?a? ima svoj skromni cilj: dobro svirati. No i izvo?a? se mora podrediti autoru glazbe koju izvodi, kaže Erika. Priznaje da joj je to problem. Jer ona se nikako ne može podrediti. Njen je glavni cilj isti kao i cilj svih ostalih izvo?a?a: biti bolji od ostalih!

Bio je to izbor od kojega ju je majka odmah pokušala odvratiti. Majka je znala da njeno dijete takvom vrstom glazbe ne?e uspjeti osvojiti srca mase, koju su i majka i dijete oduvijek prezirale, ona prva zato što je oduvijek bila malen, bezna?ajan dio te mase, a potonja jer se od po?etka trudila da ne postane takav mali, bezna?ajni dio.

Majka svaki put ustraje u tomu da se prilikom tzv. -»davanja koncerata«, koji su slatka nagrada za uporno vježbanje, širom otvore prozori na ku?i kako bi u ?arobnim melodijama mogli uživati svi susjedi. Majka i baka tada stoje pored prozora, naoružane dalekozorom, i s visine svoga brijega promatraju jesu li susjeda i cijela njena obitelj sjeli pored stare ma?ke na klup?icu ispred ku?e poslušno slušaju?i »koncert«.

Ona se osje?a isklju?ena iz svega, jer i jest isklju?ena iz svega. Drugi idu naprijed penju?i se pritom preko nje. ?ini se da je ona jedina prepreka na putu. Šeta?i prolaze, a ona ostaje ležati poput odba?ena zamaš?ena papira koji otpuhuju naleti vjetra. Zamaš?en papir ne može daleko odletjeti; trune ondje gdje je. A proces raspadanja traje godinama, koje se bezli?no nižu.

Porok je u na?elu uvijek ljubav prema neuspjehu.

The Man's rage is huge. Moil and toil and turmoil, he's coming to the boil, time to cool the heat with a jet of foam. He wants the woman to take off her clothes right away. So that she measures up to his size. He wants to conduct his lightning into her. Not that his wildfire could ever be tamed by her, and anyway he has plenty of matches. To create himself anew, as often as need be.

She only wants to be an instrument on which she will teach him to play.

By not encouraging injuries, a mother avoids having to close wounds later on. Erika's mother prefers inflicting injuries herself, then supervising the therapy.

Va a costar mucho trabajo motivar a Sophie para cometer uno o varios crímenes, ya que su naturaleza la inclina a no esforzarse demasiado.

And right away here comes a whole concrete wall of snow, this popular, but inconspicuous (once arrived, it simply lies around everywhere) piece of sports equipment that falls down to earth around the clock and no one, apart from the athletes, really pays attention, unless they haven't got winter tires fitted yet. And this snow is suddenly like stone, like concrete, which has a stomach ache and thus must empty itself over everything.