{"title":"Gitta Honegger","description":"\u003cp\u003eGitta Honegger's works delve into the intricate tapestry of \u003cem\u003earts and culture\u003c\/em\u003e, exploring themes of identity, history, and societal change. Readers can expect narratives that balance emotional depth with insightful observations, crafting stories that resonate beyond their immediate settings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom vivid explorations of human passion to evocative journeys through historical landscapes, Honegger's writing invites readers to engage with richly textured worlds where personal and cultural histories intertwine, offering a thoughtful and compelling literary experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"fury-by-elfriede-jelinek-9781803090320","title":"Fury","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFury\u003c\/em\u003e is a new play from Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek that deals with the 2015 terror attack on the satirical French magazine \u003cem\u003eCharlie Hebdo\u003c\/em\u003e’s offices in Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Greek mythology, it is Hera who blinds the hero Heracles, so that, in a fit of fury, he kills his own family. In the twenty-first century, the gods have another name. So did the three young men who stormed a magazine’s editorial office and a Jewish supermarket in Paris in January 2015 and murdered twelve people. The blind fury, however, remained and more virulent than ever, not least because the weapons were so much more effective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this raging text, arguably one of her darkest, Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek investigates topical political events in the context of enduring history and myths. Fury expresses itself not only multi-voiced and from the changing perspective of Islamist terrorists (and their special hatred of Jews), in the shape of furious German citizens, individual narcissistic humiliation, or brutal distribution battles around the globe. 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In passing, she returns repeatedly to the contradiction between religious laws against representation and the deluge of images online, where movies of assassination, severed heads, and other atrocities are exhibited for millions to see. \u003cem\u003eFury\u003c\/em\u003e is a compact grand epic that starts in primal times and attempts to describe the indescribable, relating the inexplicable in our times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455570067692,"sku":"9781803090320","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/81KvXeag8qL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774783872"},{"product_id":"on-the-royal-road-the-burgher-king-by-elfriede-jelinek-9781803092300","title":"On the Royal Road – The Burgher King","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCarefully perched somewhere between tragedy and grotesque, high-pitched and squeamish, Jelinek's play, \u003cem\u003eOn the Royal Road\u003c\/em\u003e, brings into focus the phenomenon of right-wing populism, which spreads like a virus and has a lasting effect on global politics.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek is known as a writer who works in response to contemporary crises and cultural phenomena. Perhaps none of her works display that quality as clearly as \u003cem\u003eOn the Royal Road\u003c\/em\u003e. Three weeks after Donald Trump’s election, Jelinek mailed her German editor the first draft of this play, which turns out to be a stunningly prescient response to Trump and what he represents. In this drama, we discover that a “king,” blinded by himself, who has made a fortune with real estate, golf courses, and casinos, suddenly rules the United States, and the rest of the people of the world rub their eyes in disbelief until no one sees anything anymore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs topical as the evening news, yet with insight built on a lifetime of closely observing politics and culture, \u003cem\u003eOn the Royal Road\u003c\/em\u003e brings into focus the phenomenon of right-wing populism, which spreads like a virus and has a lasting effect on global politics. Carefully perched somewhere between tragedy and grotesque, high-pitched and squeamish, Jelinek in this work questions her own position and forms of resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471319154924,"sku":"9781803092300","price":35.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781803092300-on-the-royal-road-the-burgher-king.jpg?v=1775239126"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/gitta-honegger.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}