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body does not own. O "Amatorkach" Elfriede Jelinek

"Amateur" is a relatively early, because the coming of the 1975 novel by Elfriede Jelinek, have already seen it, however, the characteristics of a future Nobel Prize winner champions workshop: focus, precision and mocking sense of humor, and by the style - avant-garde literary form, which involves the presentation of thoughts and feelings of the characters in exactly the same way as external events. In this way, Jelinek effectively debunks the illusion of individualism and can somehow catch red-handed operation of the mechanisms of ideological which are not the product of this or that particular mind, but they operate in the space between people, setting and characters of roles within the programmed ideology structures.

"Amateur" is a story about the fate of two young women: Brigitte and peasant seamstress Pauli. Their life is no different from the stereotypical pattern, but the interest Jelinek become cultural cliches relationship between behavior and the social practices of power. Not having any property, Brigitte and Paul can count only on their own bodies and use them to try to fight for your life and social position. It is worth noting that, in the strictest sense of the word "proletariat", refers to people convicted solely on the level of production and reproduction of the body. The fight takes place on two levels: first, the need to secure the biological survival of working for others (whether the work will be paid or not), and secondly to get the highest price in the "market women", which turns out to be the most important physical attractiveness . Since the latter generally depends on the first, so it is important to outshine other women and become the chosen commodity, for which the male consumer will be able to pay a lot.

Both heroines "amateur" are available to only their own bodies. Both argue that the bodies are not in the slightest their property and may decide - on a limited scale - only about who will be their master and owner. The alternative is "bezpańskość", meaning is often pushed out beyond the interpersonal world, which can not be that bad, if not the fact that it does not protect you from having severe work for biological self-preservation or the forced submission colloquial terms of stereotypes. The only chance for the likes proletariuszek Paula and Brigitte would be quite a different order, and its foundation - the end of rywalizacyjnej hatred between persons sentenced in the struggle for existence only to their female bodies.