Description
In the alpine idyll of Austria’s Alpenrose resort, vacationers wander through snow-bright beauty—only to find the ground itself haunted by the dead. Three spectral figures, each caught between memory and unfinished fate, drift through the hotel’s rooms and corridors as the past begins to stir, and the Holocaust’s buried history rises like a nightmare that refuses to stay buried. Blending experimental theater, Gothic dread, philosophical inquiry, and darkly comic provocation, this mind-bending novel turns time and space into unstable terrain where language, guilt, and responsibility collide. With Jelinek’s signature scouring sarcasm and multilingual, phantasmagorical style, the book becomes a furious, spectral reckoning with what societies inherit—and what they owe to the innocent dead.
Available Editions
paperback
Yale University Press
Published Jan 1, 2024
492 pages
ISBN: 9780300142150
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Details
First Published
1995
Language
eng
Translation
From: deu
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Children of the Dead by Elfriede Jelinek.