Behind the door

"Behind the Door" is perhaps one of the most brutal novels of Elfriede Jelinek, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2004). Although the piece was written back in 1980, the ominous social issues it touches on are still relevant today. Jelinek calmly and detachedly tells the story of teenagers who, wanting to get out of the shadow of the older generation, which they do not understand and despise, attack random passers-by at night. Despite this, they are all great art connoisseurs, interested in the latest philosophy: Sartre gave them "Nausea", Camus taught them the exact opposite of what he tried to teach in his works - he made them "outsiders", completely devoid of moral principles. In Camus, one of the heroes kills an Arab "like a fed-up fly." Jelinek's young heroes go much further in their existential quest...