Sie wissen im Grunde nichts. Sie wissen nicht, daß Gabi auf dem Grunde des Sees ruht, was nicht sehr tief ist. Ja, die Gedanken sind manchmal tief, aber die Gründe, die einen zur Tat schreiten lassen, sinds oft nicht. Der Gendarm ist etwas wie ein Fremdenführer, nur daß er als einziger niemals einen Fremden führen würde, wenn nichts für ihn dabei herausspringt. On to the story: I’ll use the book blurb so I don’t give much away (Not that there is much more to the plot than what is here): “Greed is the story of Kurt Janisch, an ambitious but frustrated country policeman, and the lonely women he seduces. It is a thriller set amid the mountains and small towns of southern Austria, where the investigation of a dead girl's body in a lake leads to the discovery of more than a single crime. In her signature style, Jelinek chronicles the exploitative nature of relations between men and women, and the cruelties of everyday life.” It's enough to make Janisch want to be done with her -- and then, when opportunity easily arises, almost casually, he kills her and dumps the body in a local lake. Der Durchschnittsleser nennt dies aber sicherlich eher „das blöde Ösigeschwurbel“. Der Brite dagegen „stream of consciousness“. Oder wie der Schwede sagen würde: „Literatur-Nobelpreis 2004“. Please, here's the gate, where it always is, and as always it's as wide open as a barn door, and we eat human flesh like a horse.

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I tried to read Elfriede Jelinek's The Piano Teacher a few years ago but found it to be written in a cold, unforgiving style that I wasn't in the mood for at the time. I had considered trying it again for GLM IV but saw a copy of Greed in my local library and thought I'd give that a go instead. Ernst and his family already have their own house -- but it's not quite theirs: they entered into an agreement with the old woman who owns it, allowing her to remain in the house until she dies -- which they had imagined would happen very soon. This entire story took my breath away when I learned it. It made me first angry, then sad, and finally determined to be a co-conspirator in the long arc of educational justice by helping to unmask these types of histories. Stay tuned for the next piece where we hear from elders around what it means to center and uplift Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and learning in these troubling times. In a world where ambition threatens to tear them apart, Dominic and Alessandra must confront their own desires and make choices that will define the course of their lives. Will their love prove strong enough to weather the storm of greed, or will it be lost forever in the pursuit of more?Revenind la roman, acesta este despre Kurt Janisch, un jandarm (cred ca era mai nimerit ca traducatorul sa-l numeasca politist, nu jandarm) care pandeste femei singure ce detin case sau apartamente, facandu-le curte, culcandu-se cu ele si incercand sa le convinga sa treaca proprietatile pe numele lui. Ele sunt desigur innebunite dupa el, fiind chinuite si facand orice ca sa-i intre in voie. Trebuie sa marturisesc ca nu inteleg de ce le atrage pe femei uniforma, eu una nu mi-as dori ca barbatul meu sa fie imbracat identic cu ceilalti barbati. He is in debt; his exact financial situation and the reasons for it are unclear, but it seems he is -- perhaps because of his real estate speculation -- overextended and in financial difficulties; by the end, he is possibly heading for bankruptcy -- appropriately enough, for a character whose moral bankruptcy is clear from the start. Practic ai aceeasi senzatie cand duci gunoiul pe palier si la intoarcere dai nas in nas cu vecina ta, Monica Tatoiu. Ea incepe sa iti turuie tot felul de lucruri, desi tu esti in papuci de casa si neglijeu, pe sala e curent, pe usa ei iese deja fum de la mancarea arsa, iar ea tot nu se opreste. Of the ten previously unread Nobel recipients I had marked down to read this year, something told me to either get Elfriede Jelinek out the way first, or, leave until last so at least if things didn't go so well, the winners that went before made up for it. Well, although I wouldn't class this as a complete train wreak, there is little in the way of positives I can take from my collision course with Jelinek's meandering, tiresome, and weird prose, resulting in one of the most frustrating novels I have ever read. Frustrating because there is a story in there somewhere, through a dense fog, but she mostly puts the reader in a situation of being left on the sidelines, never to stand in the middle of her pitch.

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Nur als Beispiel: In folgender Szene geht es darum, dass Polizisten wegen der verschwundenen Gabi eine Hausbefragung im Dorf durchführen. Stattdessen hangelt sich Jelinek hier von einem Gedanken zum anderen über das Thema Gott hindurch. Im Folgenden eine lange Passage. Wer mag, kann gerne weiterspringen (S. 413f): My love, you can nail a mirror to the wall over there, if you like, in the middle of the furniture, which you will additionally choose with premeditation. [The policeman talks the women into renovating their houses the way he wants them.] But please don’t go! You can nail the whole house to yourself, but please don’t go! I would otherwise have to prepare myself to become lonely.”There is more subtlety to Greed than there might first seem, and a nice touch is how, when, after he has murdered Gabi, Janisch begins sweating it, a bit (not least because he knows Gerti an cause him problems).

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Los enunciados de la "novela amena" parecen escupidos de una máquina de acuñar frases hechas. Jelinek no pretende narrar, ordena sus juegos verbales alrededor de un argumento trivial, dejándose llevar por el valor asociativo de las palabras. No obstante, entre retruécano y alfilerazo cuaja una especie de cuento de hadas al revés. (...) Comentarios jocosos como éste, no sólo eximen a la autora de cualquier responsabilidad con sus enunciados, sino que privan al lector de todo margen de pensamiento propio. Tarde o temprano, la lectura asistida, inevitablemente, deriva en aburrimiento." - Cecilia Dreymüller, El País Jelinek's characters are agents of ideology, more caricatures than personalities. (...) Greed inverts the storybook picture of an alpine paradise." - Ben Naparstek, Financial Times

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All this subject-matter isn't tangential -- Greed is very much all of a (broad) piece -- but unfolds in a less than straightforward way. A week passes – a little temporal distance to try and assess what it is that I have just read. An attempt to write a pertinent review. despre cosmetice: "In special femeile fac foarte mult pentru exteriorul lor si se supun astfel unei industrii ale carei produse se contrazic permanent unul pe altul, altfel cum ar mai fi atat de multe?"

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Inspired by Last Man in Tower, we’ve put together a list of exciting, discussion-worthy books about greed and the human condition. The man can't bear to hear anymore, he's already had to hear so much, for him the whole thing is a process without any adornment. Die Handlung des Buches war klischeebeladen, zog sich ewig hin und schien mir nur als Rahmen für den Wortwitz zu dienen, aber auch für allerlei sarkastische Bemerkungen über Österreich und Politik. Teilweise handelten die Personen völlig unlogisch. Warum ließ sich der Besitz liebende und Frauen verachtende Protagonist mit einem besitzlosen jungen Mädchen ein? Was sollte der halbe Kriminalfall in dem Buch? Ich fürchte, ich habe es nicht verstanden. Es gab reichlich detaillert und vulgär geschilderte Sexszenen, denen eine furchbares Frauenbild zugrunde lag. Hier bemerkte ich den Sarkasmus hinter der klischeehaften Beziehung, aber es machte die ganze Handlung noch absurder. Janisch is a Gendarm (as opposed to policeman -- Polizist), as Austrian law enforcement outside most larger urban areas was handled by the Gendarmerie (until 2005, when it was absorbed by the police); Chalmers translates Gendarm as 'country policeman'.]