Elfriede Jelinek on her non-appearance
In the Swedish newspaper Expressen there's a short text today by Elfriede Jelinek, where she writes about the speech that she's not going to read, because of her now well-known social phobia. (As for me, I think literary prizes are exactly what it would take to cure my social phobia...) Anyway, it seems silly to try to translate into English from a Swedish translation, but the gist of it is that she can't travel with the speed of her speech; and even though it was she who taught the speech to speak, it is very ungrateful and causes her a lot of pain. Yet she is grateful, and must "imagine that she is at home where she at present is not, because her speech in some way has traveled before her and without authorisation entered the hall with her entry ticket" etc. Nice.

UPDATE: Lots of grammatical and other errors corrected. Sorry. Thanks to Gunnar P.
Malte P @ 1:55 PM |   |