Prize
This years’s Nobel Prize for literature goes to Elfriede Jelinek.
Related material:
- No Pain, No Gain —
on the film of Jelinek’s autobiographical novel about a masochist, The Piano Teacher - Charles Rosen —
“When I was writing a review of Alban Berg‘s correspondence, I remarked to an elderly and very distinguished psychoanalyst that I was surprised by how many of Schoenberg’s students seemed to enjoy being so badly treated and humiliated by him. She replied, ‘I have no time to explain this just now, but I can assure you that there are a great many masochists and not nearly enough sadists to go around.'” - And so —
The Wisdom of Ann Coulter