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Original Title:	Die Klavierspielerin
ISBN:	0802118062 (ISBN13: 9780802118066)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Erika Kohut, Walter Klemmer
Setting:	Vienna(Austria)
Literary Awards:	Kääntäjien valtionpalkinto (2006)

The Piano Teacher

Elfriede Jelinek

Hardcover | Pages: 288 pages

Rating: 3.52 | 8994 Users | 848 Reviews

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The Piano Teacher, the most famous novel of Elfriede Jelinek, who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature, is a shocking, searing, aching 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 to be a seamless tissue of boredom, but Erika, a quiet thirty-eight-year-old, secretly visits Turkish peep shows at night to watch live sex shows and 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 sexual perversity, suppressed violence, and human degradation. Celebrated throughout Europe for the intensity and frankness of her writings and awarded the Heinrich Böll Prize for her outstanding contribution to German letters, Elfriede Jelinek is one of the most original and controversial writers in the world today. The Piano Teacher was made into a film, released in the United States in 2001, was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes.

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Title	:	The Piano Teacher
Author	:	Elfriede Jelinek
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	November 30th 2004 by Grove Press (first published 1983)
Categories	:	Fiction. Nobel Prize. European Literature. German Literature

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Ratings: 3.52 From 8994 Users | 848 Reviews

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Elfriede Jelinek's novel is a painful, brutal experience. I cannot say that I enjoyed this incursion in the grotesque, tenebrous entrails of the human psyche. I came back to reality saddened and disgusted, having tasted the extent of destruction which overbearing parents can have on their children's lives. And yet, the novel is well written, with surprising moments of lyricism; I cannot deny its value, despite the depressing story it contains. There is almost no sign of beauty, goodness or hope

This book gives you a severe feeling of claustrophobia and is clearly not for the faint of heart: A female piano teacher who is pushing 40 still lives with her controlling mother who is treating her like a mixture between a young child and a husband (e.g., there`s a curfew and she is sleeping in her mother`s bed). All her life, the piano teacher was pushed by her mother to become a famous concert pianist, which she didn`t achieve, but she internalized the strict discipline of piano practice and

II am giving the "Piano Teacher" three stars: two for its literary merits plus one more for a very interesting contribution to the debate on "date" rape which was in its very early stages at the time when this book was published and which has now come to occupy a very large place in our society.As literature, the "Piano Teacher" is profoundly flawed in that it mixes three different genres. It begins as a delightful tale in the tradition of the "Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" . The protagonist, Erika

I have made my way through this painful and upsetting novel. Ever since Elfriede Jelinek won Nobel Prize in 2004, but didnt come to Stockholm to pick it up, I have believed that she was not for me. Elfriede was classified as pretentious, difficult, a woman, yes, but hermetic and hyper intellectual, or so I got it from the reviews.How wrong I was. Her writing is very alive, yet to the darkest side. If there is a place called domestic hell - for mothers and daughters only, the protagonist, piano

Are our children ever our property? Is it ever justifiable for one human being to take possession of another human's will and freedom; is it okay to retain another human being for our own personal use, like you would do with a motor vehicle or a cup or a comb? Even when that human being belongs to another nation, or is our own child? There is currently a world-wide ban against making slaves of persons belonging to other nationalities, though there is not yet consensus about making 'slaves' of

Excorciating psychological study of the utter failure of interpersonal connection. Austria would appear to have issues that can only be worked through via brutal works of art, and in many ways Jelinek is harsher than anything approached by Bernhard. In some ways Jelinek writes in an anti-style, just piling declarative sentences at the reader until they're forced to accept their content. But then she switches course and descends into convoluted structures of metaphor so mixed as to almost lose

You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right -- that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws you out, then you are garbage. You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Don't. It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love shouldn't be like that"- Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon *This review probably contains spoilers*I've heard many people