کتاب معلم پیانو

From theNobel Prize-winning Austrian author: a “brilliant, uncompromising” novel that “gets behind the cream-puff prettiness of Vienna” (Publishers Weekly).InThe Piano Teacher,Elfride Jelinekcreates a shocking portrait of a talented, capable woman fashioned by society into a ticking bomb. Set in1980s Vienna, it describes a culture rotting under the weight of its oppressive, outmoded ideals—a place mirrored by the heroine’s own repressed dreams.Erika Kohut, piano teacher at the prestigiousVienna Conservatory, is a quiet woman devoted toBach,Beethoven, & her domineering mother. Her life consists of desperate boredom, neurotic possessiveness, & hopeless dreams of a concert career whose hour has long passed.EnterWalter Klemmer—a handsome, arrogant man out to conquerErika’saffections. Suddenly the dangerous passions roiling under her subdued exterior explode in a release of sexual perversity & long-buried violence. Awarded theNobel& theHeinrich Boll Prizefor her outstanding contribution toGermanletters,Elfriede Jelinekis one of the most original & controversial writers inAustriatoday.The Piano Teacherwas made into an acclaimed film byMichael Hanekein 2001.°°°Elfriede Jelinek, who was born in1946& grew up in Vienna, now lives in Vienna & Munich. She has received numerous awards for her literary works, which include not only novels but also plays, poetry, essays, translations, radio plays, screenplays & opera librettos. Her awards include theGeorg Büchner Prize& theFranz Kafka Prize for Literature. She was awarded theNobel Prize in Literaturein2004for her ‘musical flow of voices & counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society’s clichés & their subjugating power’.