The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek

The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek

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Zusammenfassung

This is the first publication in English by Elfriede Jelinek, who in 1986 won the Heinrich Boll Prize for her distinguished contribution to German literature. Set in Vienna, it is the story of a music teacher whose Jekyll and Hyde existence is disturbed by the presence of a handsome music student.

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The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek

Deep passion, thwarted sexuality and love-hate for a mother dominate the life of Erika Kohut, a piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory. Whilst her mother waits up for her, Erika Kohut trawls the porn shows of Vienna in search of tacky pleasure. Into this emotional pressure-cooker bounds Walter Klemmer, music student and ladies' man. As the relationship between teacher and pupil spirals downward, Jelinek paints a frightening picture of a woman consumed by the ecstacy of self-destruction. A best-seller in German - with sales of 100,000 copies -The Piano Teacher has been translated into French and Dutch and is currently being filmed.
A dazzling performance that will make the blood run cold -- Walter Abish ?A brilliant, deadly book? Elizabeth Young ?A brilliant, bitter, wonderful portrait of mother and daughter * artist and lover? John Hawkes *
Elfriede Jelinek was born in Austria in 1946 and grew up in Vienna where she attended the famous Music Conservatory. The leading Austrian writer of her generation, she has been awarded the Heinrich Böll Prize for her contribution to German literature. The film of The Piano Teacher by Michael Haneke won the three main prizes at Cannes in 2001. In 2004, Elfriede Jelinek was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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ISBN 13 9781852421571
ISBN 10 1852421576
Titel The Piano Teacher
Autor Elfriede Jelinek
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Profile Books Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr 1999-12-02
Seitenanzahl 288
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