Frases de Elfriede Jelinek

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Arte y orden, parientes enemistados.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Murder and assault are not lunacy; they are the logical conclusions if you live a life without an assured financial foundation.”

“The artist is lonesome and admits his solitude.”

“Just keep following my tears, and the brook will take you in.”

“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.”

“if someone has a fate, then it's a man, if someone gets a fate, then it's a woman.”

“Rainer [protagonist in the novel], who is reading The Outsider by Camus, says he would like to put the hostility of the world behind him. Once your hope for something better is taken from you, then at last you have the present all in your hand. Then you yourself are reality. Others are extras. When Rainer contemplated san evening he says that evening is melancholy ceasefire where all life has come to and end.”

“In this new era, what sets you free is knowledge, not work.”

“In the case of a writer like Musil writing is often a graceful act, like a silvery fish leaping.”

“Beethoven’s sonatas, whether show so much variety that one has to ask oneself the fundamental question of what the much vilified word ‘sonata means. Perhaps Beethoven applied the word to entities that are not even sonatas in the strict sense of the term. One has to perceive new law in the highly dramatic musical form. Often in the sonata, feeling eludes form. In Beethoven, that is not the case, for here the two go hand in hand; feeling makes form aware of a hole in the ground and vice versa.”

“After all, people with a herd instinct hold mediocrity in high esteem. They praise it as having great value. They believe they are strong because they are the majority. The middling level has no terrors, no anxieties. They huddle together, indulging in the illusion of warmth. If you’re alone with nothing, and certainly not yourself. And how content they are with that state of affairs!”

“When discussing Bach’s six Brandenburg concertos, the artistically aware person usually states, among other things, that when these masterpieces were composed, the stars were dancing in heavens. God and his dwelling place are always involved whenever these people talk about Bach.”

“Pain itself is merely a consequence of the desire for pleasure, the desire t destroy, to annihilate; in its supreme form, pain is a variety of pleasure.”

“Money is unimportant, but it is reassuring to have it.”

“Don’t start anything you can’t finish.”

“There is no such thing as the universal ‘Man’ never has been, never will be, there is the worker and there is the one who exploits the worker and those who abet him.”

“Art and order, the relative that refuse to relate.”

“Happiness happens by chance, and is not a law or the logical consequences of actions.”

“There are photographs under the pistol, showing his mother genitals. These genitals make no perceptible impression on him, though it was through them that he first entered the world.”

“Intellectuals will still go on emphasizing free will even when they’ve got nothing left to eat.”