A Climate Activist Reading of Elfriede Jelinek's Trilogy Sonne / Luft / Asche.
This article analyzes Elfriede Jelinek’s climate crisis trilogy—*Sonne, Los Jetzt!*, *Luft*, and *Asche*—highlighting its complex and often ambivalent engagement with climate activism. While the trilogy predominantly conveys a tone of gloom, cynicism, and resignation, it also contains subtle “cracks...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Austrian Studies Vol. 58; no. 4; pp. 141 - 159 |
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Modern Austrian Literature
Winter2025
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