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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) |
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 | : | Special 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 ReviewsCommentary Appertaining To Books The Piano Teacher
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, ErikaI cut myself with razors and bleed out, I consume it back, which is me, part of me, it is mine.Sitting down in a pasture full of slimy eels, crushing them as they discharge their squeamish bits all over me.Letting the gelatinous barrage of honey overwhelm me, while ants gnaw at my skin.Breaking glass and running my fingers over it, crushing it in my bare hands, letting it stick out from every pore it manages to puncture.This orifice of mine is not just mine, but someone else's; it can't tell me
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
Three and a half stars One of the questions that arose for me while reading this novel, was: 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 is our own child? There is currently a world-wide ban against making slaves of persons belonging to other
What could happen between a piano teacher and one of her students? Nothing that you've guessed, I can assure you.In addition, the main character must face her mother's constraints to her own way of life.
A bit like the moment in The Gold Rush where Charlie Chaplin opens his cabin door and the howling gale blasts him across the room and he spends the next five minutes trying to shut the door again so many raging roaring ideas came hurtling out of these pages that I struggled to close the book at all. Actually, thats not the right image! Too healthy! It was more like one of those exhibitions of biological curiosities you got in some old teaching hospitals, somewhat frowned upon now, I imagine.
This reads a bit like a shrill reboot of an old underground fable and also like overcooked Angela Carter. As Meike suggests, it's a little too eager to pre-empt all speculation about what might be motivating either of the protagonists. It's as though the author is a little bit worried that we might be overwhelmed without her careful guidance, and as though she is actually quite tame, and presumptive of our being likewise.DNF about 25%. I don't know what else to add to the issues already
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