AMONG ANIMALS

  • A new book by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
  • The history of humanity from the animals’ point of view: a text about "money or life" from one the most significant dramatists in the German language.
  • Rights to her previous work Angabe der Person were sold to 10 countries.

The paths of money.

The paths of money are inscrutable. Yet, it governs our lives, so Elfriede Jelinek persistently pursues its trail.
From the Bible to René Benko, from sheer greed to cunningly disguised corruption, from class struggle to bloody and costly wars – this is the eternal story, which Jelinek, however, tells entirely from the perspective of animals. With ever-growing incomprehension, but increasing sarcasm, cows, pigs, doves, the Lamb of God observe us humans as we consistently work towards our self-inflicted misery – and ultimately hurtle, unchecked and cheerfully, toward the apocalypse of capitalism.
For one thing is clear in Unter Tieren: the world is out of joint, and the financial market certainly won't fix it.

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Italy - La nave di Teseo | English World - Seagull | the Netherlands - Querido | Turkey - Ithaki

  • Publisher: Rowohlt Hardcover
  • Release: 19.06.2026
  • ISBN: 978-3-498-00967-0
  • 224 Pages
  • Author: Elfriede Jelinek

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Elfriede Jelinek

Elfriede Jelinek , who was born in 1946 and grew up in Vienna, now lives in Vienna and Munich. She has received numerous awards for her literary works, which include not only novels but also plays, poetry, essays, translations, radio plays, screenplays and opera librettos. Her awards include the Georg Büchner Prize and the Franz Kafka Prize for Literature. In 2004 she was awarded with Nobel Prize for Literature.