The piano teacher
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Elfriede Jelinek ; translated from the German by Joachim Neugroschel.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 280
Description: 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.
Notes: Translation of: Die Klavierspielerin.