The Piano Teacher

Elfriede Jelinek • Grove Atlantic • ISBN not provided

The Piano Teacher coverThe Piano Teacher cover

The Piano Teacher

Elfriede Jelinek • Grove Atlantic

ISBN not provided · 1988

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Elfriede Jelinek’s seminal novel explores the suffocating relationship between Erika Kohut, a middle-aged piano professor at the Vienna Conservatory, and her domineering mother. Through a clinical and unflinching prose style, the narrative dissects the intersection of artistic discipline, sexual repression, and the violent psychological manifestations of a life lived under total domestic control.

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Publisher: Grove Atlantic
1988
Language: eng

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Author: Elfriede JelinekContributor: Elfriede Jelinek

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Inferred: Austrian LiteratureInferred: Literary PublishingInferred: ObsessionInferred: RepressionInferred: PublishingInferred: Erika KohutInferred: Vienna ConservatoryInferred: Sexual Repression

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Influences: Sigmund Freud, Ingeborg BachmannCornerstone of: Postmodernism

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