novel agoraphobia the balde
The "Agora" was an open and wide market in the Parthenon of Athens. The root of the word "Agoraphobia" is in it. It is fear or phobia of wide and crowded places. Those who suffer from this phobia don’t feel comfortable in open places or among people. They get nervous when traveling by bus or when watching a football match among many people. To some extent and in one way or another, all of us are a bit agoraphobic.
This year Nobel Prize winner, the Austrian Elfriede Jelinek is agoraphobic. As soon as she knew she would get the prize, she asked the Norwegian queen if she could receive the prize (and the 1,1 million check that goes with it) in her home in Vienna. This is just a bare detail, but with this attitude, this lady who looks like Rottermeyer has conquered our heart.
Suffering from agoraphobia might be a matter of modesty for most people. This year Nobel Prize winner says that in her autobiographical and most known book, “Die Klavierspielerin” (Michael Haneke filmed the movie “La Pianiste”, which was based on this book) this shyness brings her more suffering than pleasure. It is as well very modest last year Nobel prize J. M. Coetzee’s most known book, Disgrace. We haven’t read any book by this woman who doesn’t like people; but we like the fact that she has been given the prize. So far, we don’t announce any Nobel Prize for a Basque writer. In our word republic of The Balde (kar, kar, kar...) we don’t find it adequate to give someone a 1, 1 million euro prize. At least not to a person who is "money phobic".
This year Nobel Prize winner, the Austrian Elfriede Jelinek is agoraphobic. As soon as she knew she would get the prize, she asked the Norwegian queen if she could receive the prize (and the 1,1 million check that goes with it) in her home in Vienna. This is just a bare detail, but with this attitude, this lady who looks like Rottermeyer has conquered our heart.
Suffering from agoraphobia might be a matter of modesty for most people. This year Nobel Prize winner says that in her autobiographical and most known book, “Die Klavierspielerin” (Michael Haneke filmed the movie “La Pianiste”, which was based on this book) this shyness brings her more suffering than pleasure. It is as well very modest last year Nobel prize J. M. Coetzee’s most known book, Disgrace. We haven’t read any book by this woman who doesn’t like people; but we like the fact that she has been given the prize. So far, we don’t announce any Nobel Prize for a Basque writer. In our word republic of The Balde (kar, kar, kar...) we don’t find it adequate to give someone a 1, 1 million euro prize. At least not to a person who is "money phobic".
