One of my favorite artists: the Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek!

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How are you?!

It's very difficult for me to choose just one artist, because I love a lot of them!

But... today I woud like to talk you about my favorite writer. She is called Elfriede Jelinek. She was born in Steiermark, Austria. Her mother was a catholic Austrian woman  and her father was a Czech Jew who collaborated with the Nazis during the Second World War. Elfriede loved so much her father and when  she was child, her father went mad (he couldn't stand the feeling of guilt for having worked with the Nazis) and  he died absolutly demented... Elfriede has not supported it and  she fell into a deep depression. Her mother, who had a very strong character, forced her child to study music at the conservatory. So, Elfriede studied cello, violin, flute, organ and music composition.  But Elfriede wasn't happy because the musical discipline in Austria is very hard and she began to develop a love of literature. At the age of 22, she wrote her first book, called Lisas Schatten (Lisa's Shadows). She married with the German journalist but Elfriede's mother lived with them in the same house. The relationship with her mother was very complex and Elfriede wrote its story in her most famous novel called 'The Pianist'. In 2001, Haneke adapt to a movie this roman where Isabelle Huppert plays the role of the protagonist, the pianist Erika Kohut and Annie Girardot plays the character of the piano teachers mother.

Elfriede Jelinek suffers from Asperger's syndrome. She's married but her husband lives in Germany and she lives alone in Austria. 

Elfriede Jelinek is my favorite writer because she has a poetic and musical language but, at the same time, her writing is very hard! She mixes the most beautiful and classical culture with the hardness of porn. She's a very subversive and political writer. In Austria, she was censored by the rightist politician Gëorg Haider, who hung posters on the street who said: Lieben Sie Elfriede Jelinek oder Kunst und Kultur?" ("Do you want art and culture or Elfriede Jelinek?")

 In 2004, Elfriede Jelinek received the Nobel Prize for Literature. I love her kitsch and ironic aesthetic!! Elfriede Jelinek, as Thomas Bernhard, belongs to the misanthropes current. I think that she's a very important artist because she has changed the concept of dramaturgy, she has created a new style of theather and she also composed an opera! For me, Elfriede Jelinek is a genius!