Elfriede Jelinek,the Nobel Prize Winner in Literature in 2004,has been engulfed in scandal by her novel Lust(1989)with its explicit sexual depictions and crude wordings.However,pornography is only a metaphorical means of social criticism.In fact,Lust is rooted in the anti-pornography movement in Western society in the 1980s and deconstructs pornography as a product of patriarchal society through exaggeration,parody and satire embedded in pornographic wordings.Jelinek creates a post-modern pornographic language,and through the metaphorical writing of discourse blending,her criticism extends from the pornographic industry to language and even the entire capitalistic social culture.In the mythological sense of Roland Barthes,Lust reveals the penetration of capitalist power relations in social culture by the language-oriented and symbol-loaded erotic writing.In the modern society where consumerism prevails,Lust still retains its contemporariness in cultural criticism.
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