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I am lead to believe Elfriede Jelinek has always had a love/hate relationship with her native Austria, and that becomes apparent as the novel moves slowly through some menacing and lighter passages of writing that you feel were written with Jelinek having a laugh in the dark. I can also confirm that with Greed, she has an unhealthy obsession with genitals, with the male form being unfairly used as an aggressive weapon. She was described to me recently as writing from 'somewhere else'. That I can concur with, but being different doesn't always result in a decent book. This is a daredevil, risk-taking novel that may have a minority praising her bold and unflinching look at country life in the mountains and small towns of Austria. A bit more suspense comes from the fact that Gerti could, if she wanted to, put two and two together, as she knows (all too well) of Janisch's relationship with Gabi, and that he drove off with her. Practic ai aceeasi senzatie cand duci gunoiul pe palier si la intoarcere dai nas in nas cu vecina ta, Monica Tatoiu. Ea incepe sa iti turuie tot felul de lucruri, desi tu esti in papuci de casa si neglijeu, pe sala e curent, pe usa ei iese deja fum de la mancarea arsa, iar ea tot nu se opreste. They long seem blind to just how terrible Janisch is -- or are attracted to that uniformed symbol of power from which they naturally expect abuse -- and while that seems ridiculously exaggerated it does allow Jelinek to ultimately present something of a shift.

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Joel Agee wrote in The New York Times: "Jelinek has described herself as a kind of scientist who dispassionately 'looks into the petri dish of society.' But her procedure in Greed is more like that of a prosecuting attorney in a trial of the indefensible, with effigies standing in for the accused, no judge or jury, no court protocol and of course no counsel for the defense. ... No one else, except perhaps a conscientious reviewer, would sit out her entire presentation." [4] There is something of a plot to Greed: one of the available women with a promising house Janisch has sunk his claws into is Gerti. To break it down as simply as possible, there is a cop, Kurt Janisch, married, who mostly goes by the name of 'the Country Policeman', who likes to play around with the woman of his town, until a body turns up in a lake leading to a murder investigation. But all this is kept to a minimum, and Greed is in no way to be classed as a crime/mystery/thriller, if anything it's a dark sexual satire. Jelinek has no interest in plot development, instead, the novel's main function is to flesh it out with the divisions between men and women. They are on completely different wavelengths, the women are in love with the country policeman, whereas he blatantly only does what he does with property in mind. There are other aspects of greed, with that of banks, businesses, and phone companies 'hot for our voices', and also the church.I decided rereading Greed, after being scandalized in a recent conversation by the comparison someone dared make between Jelinek and Herta Mueller. I read Jelinek years ago, and only in German, and I would be ready to give in this much: the English translation doesn’t do her justice (I remember as my one personal literary ambition starting to translate Die Liebhaberinnen into Romanian in 2005, only to be detoured from my project and immensely disappointed by the translation published only months after I started - I don’t think Jelinek’s reputation amongst the Romanian public will soon recover, same for the English translation of Greed) but even so, there’s no comparison between the two.

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My love, you can nail a mirror to the wall over there, if you like, in the middle of the furniture, which you will additionally choose with premeditation. [The policeman talks the women into renovating their houses the way he wants them.] But please don’t go! You can nail the whole house to yourself, but please don’t go! I would otherwise have to prepare myself to become lonely.” And once it is standing erect, it can't do it fast enough, so that it's over and done with once again. The original German edition of Greed comes with a descriptive subtitle, presenting it as: Ein Unterhaltungsroman -- an 'entertainment-novel' --, suggesting a light, diverting read; of course, Jelinek's novel is anything but. My opinion is, it would have been better if God had put in some overtime and created something better.”It's enough to make Janisch want to be done with her -- and then, when opportunity easily arises, almost casually, he kills her and dumps the body in a local lake. He doesn't so much care about personal conquest; he's after property -- combining: "the pleasing with the useful". She does not drone, but the story only offers loose holds, not least because Janisch is such an elusive character. Janisch is a Gendarm (as opposed to policeman -- Polizist), as Austrian law enforcement outside most larger urban areas was handled by the Gendarmerie (until 2005, when it was absorbed by the police); Chalmers translates Gendarm as 'country policeman'.] Movies generally have one or two themes, but not many more. The themes in movies are often said outright instead of hinted at. Some of the popular themes from movies today include:

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Revenind la roman, acesta este despre Kurt Janisch, un jandarm (cred ca era mai nimerit ca traducatorul sa-l numeasca politist, nu jandarm) care pandeste femei singure ce detin case sau apartamente, facandu-le curte, culcandu-se cu ele si incercand sa le convinga sa treaca proprietatile pe numele lui. Ele sunt desigur innebunite dupa el, fiind chinuite si facand orice ca sa-i intre in voie. Trebuie sa marturisesc ca nu inteleg de ce le atrage pe femei uniforma, eu una nu mi-as dori ca barbatul meu sa fie imbracat identic cu ceilalti barbati. despre menirea barbatului: "Trebuie sa te pricepi la femei, la asta se reduce totul, de asta depinde totul. La urma urmei si politicienii trebuie sa faca acelasi lucru, chiar daca numai prin vorbe. Ca barbati poate ca noi o sa reusim mai degraba prin fapte. Din cand in cand mai aducem cate ceva nou pe langa faptele noastre care sunt, de fapt, de ultima speta." despre inimile femeilor: "Adesea inimile femeilor sunt senine si incapatoare, asa incat ai si loc de intors in ele, in caz ca vrei sa pleci." How low can these women go? Imagine an older woman letting the policeman bring an underage girl into her home for the policeman to have sex with while she is there. That’s the girl who was killed and whose body was found in the lake. Do we have a suspect here? By the way, some blurbs describe this as a “thriller” – it’s not. The killing of the young girl is peripheral to the main story. And, while we follow some of the police procedures in their investigation, it’s definitely not a police procedural or a detective story.The masochistic part of this, I think what the author has been criticized for, is the self-abasing attitude of the women who accede to the advances of the policeman. He’s tall, blond, blue-eyed. They are older, losing their good looks, and desperate for company to fight off loneliness. Another interesting thing, while I was reading the book, I thought the style reminded me a lot of a book I read by another German author, Crossing the Sierra Gredos by Peter Handke. He was the 2019 Nobel Prize winner. He also was a controversial choice due to his politics (again you can see all that on Wiki). Imagine my surprise when I see that Jelinek said when she won the prize that it should have gone to Handke! She also caused controversy by not attending the ceremony when she won the prize but she sent a video acceptance speech – she’s agoraphobic. Even his actions are presented in subdued manner: the local police station has a reputation for brutality, for example, but in the county town (Kreisstadt) it's just: "mentioned with a laugh and a particular, knowing expression. Nothing can ever be proved". When what must have happened becomes all too obvious for her to ignore she does not, however, turn on Janisch but rather on herself; by the end, Janisch has another death on his conscience (or would, if he had much of a conscience).