The Piano Teacher, Paperback/Elfriede Jelinek
Descriere
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 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 boring, but Erika, a quiet thirty-eight-year-old, secretly visits Turkish peep shows at night and watched 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 firstbut then the dark passions roiling under the piano teacher s subdued exterior explode in a release of perversity, violence, and degradation."
Despre autor
Elfriede Jelinek este o scriitoare austriacă, una din vocile puternice din perioada postbelică din spațiul de limbă germană. La 7 octombrie 2004 a primit Premiul Nobel pentru literatură pentru "cursul muzical al registrelor în romanele și dramele sale, care cu o pasiune verbală unică în felul său dezvăluie absurditatea și constrângerea clișeelor sociale".
