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  by skelly & 1 users

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Type: fiction

Status: now reading

Author: Francois Mauriac

Tags: french of nobel guilt literature, Prize Winner, Lots

2007-03-26

  by jounyc & 4 users

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Elfriede Jelinek

Tags: nobel sadomasochism perverse

Description: The Nobel Prize laureates crowning work, this is a searing look into the depths of lonelinessThe Nobel Prize laureates crowning work, this is a searing look into the depths of loneliness and its resulting desperation. Jelinek's prose is brief and harsh, often painting her characters with blunt precision. Publicity shy to a near Pynchonian level, Jelinek explores the repressed sadomasochism of a Viennese piano teacher who on the outside appears well-groomed and professional, but inside yearns for a perverse sexuality that breaks away from her controlling mother....

2006-01-07

  by kreg & 5 users

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Type: fiction

Status: favorite

Author: Knut Hamsun

Tags: norwegian nobel

2005-09-09