Frases de Elfriede Jelinek

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

La pianista (Die Klavierspielerin)

“Para muchos de sus estudiantes, la música significa el ascenso de las profundidades del proletariado a las alturas inmaculadas del arte. En el futuro también ellos serán profesores y profesoras de piano.”

Wonderful, Wonderful Times

“Los que saben de arte suelen decir que, en los días en que Bach compuso los seis conciertos de Brandemburgo, las estrellas se habían reunido a bailar en el firmamento.”

La pianista (Die Klavierspielerin)

“Es lo que piensa Erika. En su opinión sólo el arte tiene una existencia más duradera. Erika lo poda, lo poda, lo ata a una guía, lo desbroza y, finalmente, lo cosecha.”

La pianista (Die Klavierspielerin)

“A veces, por supuesto, el arte crea el sufrimiento en primer lugar.”

La pianista (Die Klavierspielerin)

“Tengo la sensación de que usted desprecia su cuerpo, que sólo tolera el arte, señora profesora, dice Klemmer. Sólo le permite satisfacer sus necesidades primordiales, pero no basta sólo con comer y dormir.”

La pianista (Die Klavierspielerin)

Frases de arte de Elfriede Jelinek

“Sólo el arte le ofrece dulzuras intemporales. Erika sigue caminando. Dentro de poco la putrefacción se habrá extendido y alcanzará la mayor parte de su cuerpo. Entonces le sobrevendrá la muerte en medio de sufrimientos.”

La pianista (Die Klavierspielerin)

“Erika vaga por altísimos corredores aéreos suspendida por efecto del arte y casi llega a desaparecer por los aires.”

La pianista (Die Klavierspielerin)

“El contacto casual amenaza a esta mujer, cuyo espíritu y cuyo arte es admirado. La amenaza quizá esté arriba, en el cabello, quizás en los hombros sobre los que tiene puesta la chaquetilla tejida.”

La pianista (Die Klavierspielerin)

“Como en los viejos tiempos, muchos individuos jóvenes son empujados hacia el arte, la mayoría de ellos por sus padres, porque éstos no tienen ni la más remota idea de lo que es el arte, como mucho saben que existe.”

La pianista (Die Klavierspielerin)

“Arte y orden, parientes enemistados.”

La pianista (Die Klavierspielerin)

“Y de hecho tanto en la música como en general en el reino de las artes, es más tanto más fácil crear contrastes estridentes, oposiciones brutales. Pero esas cosas no son más que baratijas, nada más.”

La pianista (Die Klavierspielerin)

Elfriede Jelinek Frases y Citas

“Con frecuencia, la inquietud hace presa en la madre, porque todo propietario aprende ya desde el comienzo y con sufrimientos: la confianza es buena pero ha de haber control.”

La pianista (Die Klavierspielerin)

“Algo vibraba en mi interior con Shubert, quizá el también se haya sentido tan conmovido cuando escribió Soledad como me sentía yo ayer. En cierta forma sufríamos al mismo ritmo. Shubert y mi modesta persona.”

La pianista (Die Klavierspielerin)

“Abajo, un conocido artista de la ciudad muestra lo que fue el arte del pasado, ya que en la actualidad el arte no tiene posibilidades de existencia. Desde aquí, en la distancia se alcanza a ver la técnica, el polo opuesto del arte.”

La pianista (Die Klavierspielerin)

“Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.”

La pianista (Die Klavierspielerin)

Elfriede Jelinek: Frases en inglés

“Vice is basically the love of failure.”

Elfriede Jelinek libro La pianista

P 23
The Piano Teacher (1988)

“The rules of art do not exist, because what makes art art is the fact that it obeys no rules at all.”

Fuente: Pianolærerinnen

“Of course, art turns many people away for there has to be a limit. The limits between the gifted and the ungifted.”

Elfriede Jelinek libro Wonderful, Wonderful Times

p 44
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

“In the old days people had no time to harm the environment because they were busy doing harm to themselves, in the War, for instance.”

Elfriede Jelinek libro La pianista

P 27
The Piano Teacher (1988)

“often these women marry or they are ruined some other way.”

Elfriede Jelinek libro Wonderful, Wonderful Times

60
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

“A sensitive person gets burned, like a delicate moth.”

p 2
Women As Lovers (1994)

“Better to wear worn shoes than to polish the boots of shop owner.”

Elfriede Jelinek libro La pianista

Der Sensible muß verbrennen, dieser zarte Nachtfalter.
P 71
The Piano Teacher (1988)

“The world would be a lot better off if it paid more attention to its philosophers and artists than to its own tiny egotistic spirit, which lacks an overview. People should place their belief in Beethoven and Socrates.”

Elfriede Jelinek libro La pianista

P 30
The Piano Teacher (1988)

“One suffers work, even if one enjoys doing it.”

Elfriede Jelinek libro Wonderful, Wonderful Times

p 40
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

“Every child instinctively heads toward dirt and filth unless you pull it back.”

P 34
Women As Lovers (1994)

“The artist is lonesome and admits his solitude.”

Elfriede Jelinek libro La pianista

P 24
The Piano Teacher (1988)

“We are monsters, even if we disguise ourselves as ordinary people. We are the children of ordinary people but we are not content with that. Inwardly we are consumed with wickedness, outwardly we are grammar school pupils.”

Elfriede Jelinek libro La pianista

P 24
The Piano Teacher (1988)

“He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.”

Elfriede Jelinek libro Wonderful, Wonderful Times

Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

“I have a feeling that you despise your body and that you only value art, you only value your argent needs, but eating and sleeping aren’t enough. You believe that your appearance is your enemy, and the only friend you have is music. Why look just in the mirror, look at your reflection, you’ll never find a better friend that yourself.”

Elfriede Jelinek libro Wonderful, Wonderful Times

Fuente: Wonderful, Wonderful Times

“Nothing is natural, yet everything is as it is by nature.”

Elfriede Jelinek libro La pianista

P 65
The Piano Teacher (1988)

“I don’t know if it’s enough for a whole life, a man wants to enjoy many women, a man is different.”

Elfriede Jelinek libro Wonderful, Wonderful Times

p 48
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

“sewing in itself is already in the women's blood.”

P 26
Women As Lovers (1994)

“The criteria of art are the imponderable, the immeasurable.”

p 3
Women As Lovers (1994)

“Time stands still for man and woman alike, it is a good moment, because Time usually makes everything worse, poor people grow old, rich people can buy a little time but they can'hold it up for good, it always catches up with them. In the last analysis, Time is democratic.”

Elfriede Jelinek libro La pianista

P 118
The Piano Teacher (1988)

“The most powerful urge known to Man is the urge to be free of manual labour. Any means that accomplishes that end is fine. Some people erroneously imagine that they have a birthright to non-manual work.”

Elfriede Jelinek libro Wonderful, Wonderful Times

123
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

“weak are defeated by the strong in the world of Nature. A reed by the north wind, for instance. And silence by the forest.”

Elfriede Jelinek libro Wonderful, Wonderful Times

60
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

“Death the Laveller annihilates all distinctions.”

Elfriede Jelinek libro Wonderful, Wonderful Times

109
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

“For the first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.”

Elfriede Jelinek libro Wonderful, Wonderful Times

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Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

“For the eyes are the mirror of the soul and ought to remain unscathed if at all possible. Otherwise people will suppose the soul is done for.”

Elfriede Jelinek libro La pianista

P 5
The Piano Teacher (1988)

“There are no holidays for art; and that’s just fine with the artist.”

Elfriede Jelinek libro Wonderful, Wonderful Times

p 7
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

“The poet is a king in his realm. His is empire of imagination, in which there are unlimited mansions.”

Elfriede Jelinek libro La pianista

P 29
The Piano Teacher (1988)

“nothing comes of nothing after all.”

Elfriede Jelinek libro Wonderful, Wonderful Times

P 179
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

“First the masters died, now their music is dying, because people only want to listen to pop, rock, and punk.”

p 1
Women As Lovers (1994)

“Stifter tells us that people are not free, that they are slaves to the laws of Nature. So you have to commit violent deeds (if you don’t have anyone to do other kinds of deeds with), actions that ordinary people would call crimes but which we define as the norm, though of course it is our norm and no that of the rest.”

Elfriede Jelinek libro La pianista

P 69
The Piano Teacher (1988)