Nobel Lit Winner Writes Bad Porn, Not Literature
Literati the world over are wondering what the Nobel Prize Committee was smoking when they chose the reclusive Austrian Elfriede Jelinek as the winner of the Literature prize. It's not that she was unknown, as many gifted writers work in obscurity; it's that most of her work resembles bad bondage porn, reveling in female torture and subjugation, in a style that is pedestrian and uninspired. Manuela Hoelterhoff of Bloomberg.com sounds off.