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38-year-old Erika Kohut, a piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory, still lives with her domineering mother. Erika has a weakness for buying clothing that she will never actually wear, secretly visits Turkish peep shows and watches sadomasochistic films. When a handsome, self-absorbed 17-year-old student attempts to seduce Erika, she resists, but the relationship between teacher and pupil spirals rapidly out of control, and Erika becomes consumed by the ecstasy of self-destruction.
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The Piano Teacher, Elfriede Jelinek
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- Released
- 2009
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- Title
- The Piano Teacher
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Elfriede Jelinek
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Released
- 2009
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 280
- ISBN10
- 0802144616
- ISBN13
- 9780802144614
- Series
- Tags
- Contemporary Fiction, German Literature, Mothers and Daughters, Teacher and Student, Self-Harm, Sexual Deviations
- First published
- 1983
- Original title
- Die Klavierspielerin
- Rating
- 3.6 out of 5
- Description
- 38-year-old Erika Kohut, a piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory, still lives with her domineering mother. Erika has a weakness for buying clothing that she will never actually wear, secretly visits Turkish peep shows and watches sadomasochistic films. When a handsome, self-absorbed 17-year-old student attempts to seduce Erika, she resists, but the relationship between teacher and pupil spirals rapidly out of control, and Erika becomes consumed by the ecstasy of self-destruction.