![]() The very strained relationship between Erika and her mother is made clear in the opening scene, in which Erika rips out some of her mother's hair when her mother attempts to take away a new dress that Erika has purchased for herself. The novel follows Erika Kohut, a piano teacher in her late thirties who teaches at the Vienna Conservatory and still lives in an apartment with her very controlling elderly mother, with whom Erika shares her parents' marriage bed, despite having a room of her own. In 2001, the novel was adapted into the film The Piano Teacher, directed by Michael Haneke. ![]() While the English work was titled The Piano Teacher, the title in German means the piano player it is also clear that the player is female because of the noun's feminine ending. Like much of Jelinek's work, the chronology of the events in the book is interwoven with images of the past and the internal thoughts of characters. The novel follows protagonist Erika Kohut, a sexually and emotionally repressed piano teacher, as she enters into a sadomasochistic relationship with her student, Walter Klemmer, the results of which are disastrous. Translated by Joachim Neugroschel, it was the first of Jelinek's novels to be translated into English. The Piano Teacher ( German: Die Klavierspielerin) is a novel by Austrian Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek, first published in 1983 by Rowohlt Verlag. ![]()
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