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Lust (Paperback, Main) Loot Price: R276
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Lust (Paperback, Main)

Elfriede Jelinek; Translated by Michael Hulse

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In 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 property. Gerti is not asked how she feels about the use Hermann puts her to. She is a receptacle into which Hermann pours his juices, nastily, briefly, brutally. The long-suffering and battered Gerti thinks she has found her saviour and love in Michael, a student who rescues her after a day of vigorous use by her husband. But Michael is on his way up the Austrian political ladder, and he is, after all, a man. In Elfriede Jelinek's mitteleuropa, love is as distant from sex as the Alps are from the sea, and the everyday mechanics of husband, wife, and child become a loveless horror. Both a condemnation of the myth of romantic love and an angry defence of women's sexuality, Lust is pornography for pessimists. A bestseller throughout Europe, Lust confirms Elfriede Jelinek as the most challenging writer - female or male - in Europe today. It is a dark, dazzling performance.

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Imprint: Serpent's Tail
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: March 1992
First published: March 1992
Authors: Elfriede Jelinek
Translators: Michael Hulse
Dimensions: 198 x 131 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 207
Edition: Main
ISBN-13: 978-1-85242-183-0
Categories: Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
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LSN: 1-85242-183-5
Barcode: 9781852421830

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