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The Piano Teacher

Elfriede Jelinek

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The most popular work from provocative Austrian Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher is a searing portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires. Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the prestigious and formal Vienna Conservatory, who still lives with her domineering and possessive mother. Her life appears boring, but Erika, a quiet thirty-eight-year-old, secretly visits Turkish peep shows at night and watched sadomasochistic films. Meanwhile, a handsome, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old student has become enamored with Erika and sets out to seduce her. She resists him at first--but then the dark passions roiling under the piano teacher's subdued exterior explode in a release of perversity, violence, and degradation.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Grove Press
  • Publish Date: Oct 1st, 2009
  • Pages: 288
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.22in - 5.56in - 0.82in - 0.59lb
  • EAN: 9780802144614
  • Categories: • Literary• Psychological

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Rebecca Makkai is a novelist and short-story writer.

Next is The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek, translated by Amrit Mehta. I wasn't intending to go east, but I'll be IN Austria in a couple weeks, so I had to. https://t.co/RLMpeD0KjQ

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Dorothy Dittrich's The Piano Teacher wins the GG for English-language drama. (Not to be confused with Julia Cho's play, or Michael Haneke's film, or Elfriede Jelinek's novel of the same name.) https://t.co/Yj6gJXAYJG

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"Language knows what it wants. Good for it, because I don’t know, no not at all." Novelist Elfriede Jelinek pursued studies within music, art and theater. This can be traced in her literary works such as her famous novel 'The Piano Teacher'. #NobelPrize https://t.co/pMBD3LE3z0

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