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Three Plays - Rechnitz, The Merchant's Contracts, Charges (The Supplicants) (Paperback)
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Three Plays - Rechnitz, The Merchant's Contracts, Charges (The Supplicants) (Paperback)
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For much of her career, Elfriede Jelinek has been maligned in the
press for both her unrelenting critique of Austrian complicity in
the Holocaust and her provocative deconstructions of pornography.
Despite this, her central role in shaping contemporary literature
was finally recognized in 2004 with the award of the Nobel Prize in
Literature. Although she is an internationally recognized
playwright, Jelinek's plays are difficult to find in English, which
makes this new volume, which includes "Rechnitz: The Exterminating
Angel," "The Merchant's Contracts" and "Charges (The Supplicants)"
all the more valuable. In "Rechnitz," a chorus of messengers
reports on the circumstances of the massacre of 180 Jews, an actual
historical event that took place near the Austrian/Hungarian border
town of Rechnitz. In "The Merchant's Contracts," Jelinek brings us
a comedy of economics, where the babble and media spin of
spectators leave small investors alienated and bearing the brunt of
the economic crisis. In "Charges (The Supplicants)," Jelinek offers
a powerful analysis of the plight of refugees, from ancient times
to the present. She responds to the immeasurable suffering among
those fleeing death, destruction, and political suppression in
their home countries and, drawing on sources as widely separated in
time and intent as up-to-the-minute blog postings and Aeschylus's
"The Supplicants," Jelinek asks what refugees want, how we as a
society view them, and what political, moral, and personal
obligations they impose on us.
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