by Elfriede Jelinek · Planeta Publishing · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423336944
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«Deseo» is the novel by Austrian Elfriede Jelinek, published by Planeta Publishing in paperback (240 pages, in Spanish).
A paper-factory director, accustomed to infidelity, abandons prostitutes for fear of AIDS and subjects his wife to violent sexuality in their bourgeois home. The scenes, witnessed by their son, lay bare the mechanisms of conjugal domination and the hypocrisy of a class that boasts of sexual liberation.
Part of the Áncora & Delfín collection. Translated by Carlos Fortea. Originally published in 1989 under the title Lust. Elfriede Jelinek received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004.
Intended for an adult audience: contains explicit sexual scenes and an uncomfortable look at conjugal violence.
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.
