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The Piano Teacher (German: Die Klavierspielerin) is a novel by Austrian Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek, first published in 1983 by Rowohlt Verlag. Translated by Joachim Neugroschel, it was the first of Jelinek's novels to be translated into English.
- Elfriede Jelinek
- 1983
Jan 1, 2001 · Set in modern day Vienna, Jelinek's novel plunges us into the mind of Erika Kohut, a repressed piano teacher and failed concert pianist who inflicts pain on herself and engages in unpleasurable sexual voyeurism. She lives with and sleeps in the same bed as her psychotically controlling mother.
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Oct 1, 2009 · Read sample. The Piano Teacher: A Novel Paperback – October 1, 2009. by Elfriede Jelinek (Author), Joachim Neugroschel (Translator) 3.3 405 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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 ...
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by Elfriede Jelinek. Start Free Trial. Summary. Critical Essays. Questions & Answers. Summary. PDF Cite Share. Erika Kohut is a pianist who lives with her mother and teaches at a music...
Nov 10, 2004 · The Piano Teacher: A Novel. Hardcover – November 10, 2004. 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.
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Oct 13, 2009 · From the Nobel Prize-winning Austrian author: a “brilliant, uncompromising” novel that “gets behind the cream-puff prettiness of Vienna” (Publishers Weekly). In The Piano Teacher, Elfride Jelinek creates a shocking portrait of a talented, capable woman fashioned by society into a ticking bomb.
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Jan 20, 2020 · English. 280 pages ; 22 cm. 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 watches sadomasochistic films.
