What Happened after Nora Left Her Husband at The New Stage

The Nobel Prize winner writes provocatively and her relentless criticism even surpasses that of Ibsen. (Two of the plays Jelinek links up to are contained in the title.) Above all, she conjectures the story of Nora. As the author has herself said, she considers Nora an extremely negative character. Although Nora extricated herself from her marriage, she continues, like a squirrel, hopping around seeking to please men, without understanding any of the principles of the civilisation dictated by males. (Those who exploit more effectively, compete more effectively, is how her algorithm could read.) Jelinek sends Nora to the 1930s, the years of economic crisis with war on the horizon. As Václav B?lohradský would put it, it is an apposite metaphor of the time of the deified growth of Growth.