Elfriede Jelinek

My writings are limited to depicting analytically, but also polemically, the horrors of reality. Redemption is the speciality of other authors, male and female. ”

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable. ”

I am a sort of justice fanatic, and I always have to give a voice to those who get a raw deal. ”

I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity. ”

It's interesting that the treatment of historical events by art precedes the civilisation of people through democracy. ”

It doesn't suit me as a person to be put on public display. ”

I am not made to be pulled into the public as a person. I feel threatened there. ”

I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead. ”

It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease. ”

I'm not one of those women writers who are obsessed by their ego, possibly because I don't have one. ”