Women as Lovers
novel by Jelinek
Also known as: “Die Liebhaberinnen”
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discussed in biography
- In Elfriede Jelinek
…the satiric Die Liebhaberinnen (1975; Women as Lovers, 1994), she described the entrapment and victimization of women within a dehumanizing and patriarchal society. Her semiautobiographical novel Die Klavierspielerin (1983; The Piano Teacher, 1988) addressed issues of sexual repression; it was adapted for the screen in 2001. In her writings, Jelinek…
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