Elfi Electra, Inge, Sylvia seek a Father
Abstract
The absent father is a constant theme in Elfriede Jelinek’s work. Theaterwissenschaft literary criticism argues that he died at a certain moment in Jelinek’s literary production, while Germanistik literary criticism usually maintains that the father is still alive. This paper argues that the father is still alive, not as a person but as pars pro toto and as an ideological representation. Vain attempts are made to recover the father’s scattered body and his words. This thesis will be tested using a detailed analysis of the search that drives the figures of Elfi Electra in Ein Sportstück and Inge and Sylvia in Die Wand (Prinzessinnendramen).
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