The Piano Teacher

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"Compelling fiction, ensnaring the reader with the intensity of the author's vision and the bitter irony she uses to present her view of the city Passionately politicaL" —Los Angeles Times Book Review
'"T^he most popular work from provocative Nobel Laureate Elfriede Jelinek, JL The Piano Teacher is a searing portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires. Thirty-eight-year-old Erika Kohut teaches piano at the prestigious and formal Vienna Conservatory, and still lives with her domineering mother. Her life appears boring, but Erika has a secret: she visits Turkish peep shows at night and watches sadomasochistic films. When a handsome, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old student attempts to seduce her, she resists—but then the dark passions roiling under her subdued exterior explode in a release of perversity, violence, and degradation.
"A brilliant, bitter, wonderful portrait of mother and daughter, artist and lover." —John Hawkes, author of The... Tovább

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"Compelling fiction, ensnaring the reader with the intensity of the author's vision and the bitter irony she uses to present her view of the city Passionately politicaL" —Los Angeles Times Book Review
'"T^he most popular work from provocative Nobel Laureate Elfriede Jelinek, JL The Piano Teacher is a searing portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires. Thirty-eight-year-old Erika Kohut teaches piano at the prestigious and formal Vienna Conservatory, and still lives with her domineering mother. Her life appears boring, but Erika has a secret: she visits Turkish peep shows at night and watches sadomasochistic films. When a handsome, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old student attempts to seduce her, she resists—but then the dark passions roiling under her subdued exterior explode in a release of perversity, violence, and degradation.
"A brilliant, bitter, wonderful portrait of mother and daughter, artist and lover." —John Hawkes, author of The Blood Oranges and Second Skin
"Extraordinary linguistic zeal Uelinek's] musical flow of voices and counter-voices reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power." —Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Nobel Prize address, 2004
"An exploration of fascism, not so much in the political sense as in the personal the language is simple yet full of imaginative, often-funny metaphors, the view of the world original." —New York Times Book Review
Winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize for Literature and the Heinrich Boll Prize, ELFRIEDE JELINEK grew up in Vienna, where she attended the Vienna Conservatory of Music. She is also the author of Wonderful, Wonderful Times-, Lust, and Women as Lovers. Vissza