Nobel Prize-winning author Elfriede Jelinek is an artist of many varying stripes, and it may have been that self-contained diversity that attracted the Nobel Academy to her in the first place. “In her dramatic works, the academy noted, Ms. Jelinek ‘successively abandoned traditional dialogues for a kind of polyphonic monologues that do not serve to delineate roles but to permit voices from various levels of the psyche and history to be heard simultaneously.’ She may be the first Nobel laureate in literature to have made a significant commitment to the Internet, frequently posting commentary on her own web site.”