Elfrida Jelinek, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004, author of the novels “Pianist”, “Lost”, “Lovers”, to date the most famous writer not only of Austria, but of all Europe. In Front of a Closed Door is a novel about high school students looking for their place in a society that finds the first signs of well-being - in Austria, which recently parted with Nazism and with the Soviet occupation. How to spend the rest of school years, so that there is something to remember on the slope of life? How to stand out among classmates and cope with envy of more affluent peers? What to do when parents have nothing to breathe in the house? Under the pen E. A tree unwinds an inexorable thread from the ordinary boredom of a teenager to an axe in his hands . Screening of the novel in 2007 is released on Russian television .