by Elfriede Jelinek · POINTS · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782020555340
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«Les Exclus» is the novel by Elfriede Jelinek, published by Points in paperback (282 pages, in French).
Four teenagers in 1950s Vienna assault and beat passers-by for no reason other than pleasure. Their gratuitous violence reflects an Austria unable to confront its Nazi past, which passes its monstrosity on to the next generation.
Originally published in German as «Die Ausgesperrten» (1980), this edition includes the translation by Y. Hoffmann and M. Litaize. Elfriede Jelinek received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004.
For readers of contemporary European fiction who appreciate social criticism and uncomfortable perspectives on the postwar era.
Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She is one of the most decorated authors to write in German and was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power". She is considered to be among the most important living playwrights of the German language.
