Rein Gold by Elfriede Jelinek

Author:Elfriede Jelinek
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Published: 2020-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

B: Must I really be gone from here, must I bid farewell to you, never go to bed with you, I mean, go to bat for you, Father? Obeying someone I don’t know? Throwing myself on someone, anyone, and if everyone were a hero it would make no difference, you always ascribed this to me, and because you thought I was so hot for this, you ascribed this fate to me. Pushing myself on someone who doesn’t want me? Since the hero always wants something other than what he’s got at the moment. He wants to lead the eternally creating life, but he dies anyway. He wants death to be where he is not, but then he still rather dies himself. The hero always wants to do everything on his own, he wants nothing that exists to perish, even if he has to take care of it himself. He wants everything to perish and he takes care of that too. He wants, he wants, he wants. The hero goes down. He goes down with all that exists. The hero hunts, he hunts persistently and single-mindedly, but in the end, it is he who has been hunted. The hero wants to destroy the dominance of one over the other, the power of the mighty, so that he alone is powerful. But he will perish. He will die. This hero won’t give a damn about power, he won’t even know it, this is why he’ll have to die, die as an insult to all the other power-mongers with their bummed, their pumped-up power, even though the horror of this thought almost floors him, that’s where he will end anyway. He will try to break the power of property and the violence of the powerful, but he himself will be broken, because unconsciously, not unconscientiously, he is part of it. He will want to recover the treasure, as the only one, but they dumped it into the water, because before that generations of heroes slayed each other for the treasure, hundreds slain, thousands drowned. Just for the money. Just for the money? Just for the money! They dumped the treasure into the water, so that no one would get it. A rational attitude. Centuries of war for the gold, but now this is the end of it. The gold is in the river, all is in flux, the river doesn’t yield, so the hero must step up to the plate, but luckily not into the water, so that at least something happens. The hero is the killer-deputy, the Führer-deputy, the deputy of a deputy, all the way to the top, to God, who appoints the deputy and then kills him, because he always must remain the one and only. There is room for only one. The hero, a deputy of God, an angel, and the Father must be hostile to him. While actually the hero would have to be his most beloved. Thank you that you leave him to me, Father. But in the long run no one can keep a hero.

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