Title: The piano teacher : a novel /
Authors: Jelinek, Elfriede, 1946-; Neugroschel, Joachim,
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
Year: 1988
Subjects: Fiction; Vienna (Austria) Fiction.
Abstract: 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 watches 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 perversity, violence, and degradation--From book description.