Description
Elfriede Jelinek considers Screeds her “American Trilogy”: the three texts collected here were written in quick succession; the first and second in the immediate aftermath of each of Trump’s successful power grabs; the final text following the release of the Epstein files
From the author of The Piano Teacher, this timely trio of scorching texts against idiocy, corruption, and political insanity fully display the adamantine, acerbic wit that won Jelinek the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Reviews
"Elfriede Jelinek is magnificent." — Mary Gaitskill
"Jelinek's work is brave, adventurous, witty, antagonistic and devastatingly right about the sorriness of human existence, and her contempt is expressed with surprising chirpiness: it's a wild ride." — The Guardian
"Her musical flow of voices and counter-voices that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power." — Nobel Prize Committee