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''The Children of the Dead'' ((ドイツ語:Die Kinder der Toten)) is a novel by Elfriede Jelinek, first published in 1995 by Rowohlt Verlag. It is commonly regarded as her magnum opus. The novel won the Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen in 1996. The prologue and epilogue were translated into English by Louise E. Stoehr in 1998.〔Documentation of translations of Elfriede Jelinek's texts by the Elfriede Jelinek-Research-Center, Vienna: (PDF )〕 Next to Jelinek's novel ''Neid'', ''The Children of the Dead'' is her longest work. It is notorious for its large number of characters, its intricate story lines, and its ironic cross-references. Although it can be classified as a postmodern horror novel, Jelinek herself calls it a "ghost story written in the tradition of the Gothic novel."〔"Gespensterroman in der Tradition der gothic novel": Grohotolsky, Ernst (ed.). ''Provinz sozusagen''. Graz: Droschl, 1995, p. 63.〕 The novel constitutes an intensive examination of the memory and suppression of the Holocaust. Along with this goes an associative mode of writing which incorporates plays on words and constantly disrupts linear narration through looping and repeated narrative strands. ==Plot== The novel is unusual amongst literary works in German in that all the characters are undead in the process of decomposition and are presented as mute zombies in the manner of splatter films. Of these undead protagonists, the three primary are Gudrun Bichler, Edgar Gstranz and Karin Frenzel; they are incapable of speech, obsessed with sex, and brutal. They are confronted with the mass of Holocaust victims, who wish to achieve new life by means of the couple, Gudrun and Edgar; however their plan fails since Gudrun and Edgar are likewise undead. The setting dissolves into a sea of mud.
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