The piano teacher is focused on what for jelinek are the essentials of human behaviour, and she examines the worst traits with a cold eye. This book switches between the the early 1940s and the early 1950s. A haunting tale of morbid voyeurism and masochism, the piano teacher, first published in 1983, is elfreide jelinek s masterpiece. Erika and her mother live in an apartment in vienna. Help faq accessibility purchase help adchoices publishers. Ive been in a lot of book clubs, and i know its not always easy to get a conversation going on a book. Set in hong kong, it is easy to follow these jumps from from one era back and forth to the other. The woman is the piano teacher, an excellent subject for a character study. On elfriede jelinek the piano teacher by elfriede jelinek, translated. Piano street has been a wonderful tool to me as both a pianist and a piano teacher. Free shipping shopper toolkit disability customer support.
Jelineks celebrated novel has often been read as a literary case study. Sometimes the end of a love affair is only the beginning in 1942, will truesdale, an englishman newly arrived in hong kong, falls headlong into a passionate relationship with trudy liang, a beautiful eurasian. First published in 1983, the piano teacher is the masterpiece of elfriede jelinek, austrias most famous writer. The leading austrian writer of her generation, her other works include wonderful, wonderful times, women as lovers, and lust. I can browse the collection for pieces i want to play andor have my students play. Trust is fine, but control is better the blank garden. The piano teacher by elfriede jelinek, joachim neugroschel. Elfriede jelineks novel the piano teacher was a sensation from the day it was published some 18 years ago. Erika is a middle aged piano teacher in vienna whose mother has pushed her all her life to be a star.
The result is a very repressed and grandiose personality in what otherwise might have been a fairly talented normal girl. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Complete summary of elfriede jelineks the piano teacher. The piano teacher by elfriede jelinek book read online scribd. I started reading the book and i had to stop a few times to think it over. On second thought, it should be the piano teacher jelinek novel, per wp. A haunting tale of morbid voyeurism and masochism, the piano teacher, first published in 1983, is elfreide jelineks masterpiece. In 1952 he meets claire pendleton, the piano teacher of the title, whos come to hong kong with her dull and unimaginative husband, a civil. Other articles where the piano teacher is discussed. Translated by joachim neugroschel, it was the first of jelineks novels to be translated into english. Jelinek s prosestyle seems to have much in common with her fellow austrian thomas bernhardit oozes out with an almost misanthropic intent.
In the piano teacher, elfride jelinek creates a shocking portrait of a talented, capable. Read the piano teacher by elfriede jelinek for free with a 30 day free trial. Ambitious, exotic, and a classic book club read, the piano teacher is a combination of tenko meets the remains of the day. The piano teacher takes place in hong kong and basically deals with how the characters in the story are affected by the japanese occupation. The piano teacher by elfriede jelinek librarything. The piano teacher depicts the emotionally rigorous world of erika, and the neurotic love triangle that confuses violence for love. The mother has tightly controlled every detail of erikas life, or so the mother believes. Elfriede jelinek was born in austria in 1946 and grew up in vienna where she attended the famous music conservatory. The difficulty rating system that piano street uses enables me to search by difficulty level for pieces at my students various playing levels. Jan 12, 2009 the central figure is will truesdale, who across this tenyear period is involved with two vastly different women. The piano teacher by elfriede jelinek, 1999, serpents tail edition, in english the piano teacher 1999 edition open library.
Mar 25, 2015 meet erika kohut, an austrian piano teacher at the vienna conservatory, a bach and shubert enthusiast, multitalented and with a secret face that she unravels in this beautifully written book. The piano teacher, the most famous novel of elfriede jelinek, wh. The central figure is will truesdale, who across this tenyear period is involved with two vastly different women. Maybe the signature work of the austrian nobelist the piano teacher is certainly a unique look under the covers of sexual repression. The most popular work from provocative austrian nobel laureate elfriede jelinek, the piano teacher is a searing portrait of a woman bound between a repressive. Its a blistering portrait of hong kong during and after world war ii as well as a gutsy exploration of the often dangerous and damaging choices made by individuals during wartime. The piano teacher by elfriede jelinek webster university. There is some crossover, obviously, as the author also taught at the conservatory, but. Despite my general attraction to jelineks writing, i wasnt as impressed with the piano teacher as i was with wonderful, wonderful world and i think this was because wondeful is carried forward by a story which flows more easily and because it is more relentlessly consistent with the tragedy being built in.
We are a big, bustling group of teachers from all over the world who enjoy networking. The piano teacher elfriede jelinek pseudointellectual. In the piano teacher, elfride jelinek creates a shocking portrait of a talented, capable woman fashioned by society into a ticking bomb. Ive found that the best book club discussion questions are ones that are openended and that get people to share their personal opinions. Now austrian director michael haneke adapted her highly disturbing text for the screen. The piano teacher is a tale of love and betrayal set in wartorn hong kong. The piano teacher piano teacher mtv by elfriedeauthor.
But their affair is soon threatened by the invasion of the. The inevitable breakdown is an insight beyond what jelinek saw as the artificial prettiness of vienna to show a side still reminiscent of its uncomfortable early postwar years. Read unlimited books and audiobooks on the web, ipad, iphone and android. The piano teacher, the debut novel of former elle editor janice y. On a psychological level, the novel explores the way in which the motherdaughter relationship will. Musical performance and textual performativity in elfriede jelineks. The piano teacher the page was moved from the current name without any discussion, and against the current consensus. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. Into this emotional pressurecooker bounds music student and ladies man walter klemmer. On thursday, november 20, the farmington libraries welcome professor nels highberg as he leads our classic book discussion on the novel, the piano teacher by elfriede jelinek. The piano teacher was founded in 2011 to meet the increased demand for online resources for piano teachers in australia and across the world. A novel books that changed the world kindle edition by jelinek, elfriede, neugroschel, joachim.
Its difficult to tell how much of the bile of the story is erikas worldview and how much is jelineks. This is probably a better place to start reading jelinek than greed. In 1942, englishman will truesdale falls headlong into a passionate relationship with trudy liang, a beautiful eurasian socialite. Musical performance and textual performativity in elfriede. For a similarly bleak look at sexual relationships, try the handmaids tale by margaret atwood. The piano teacher elfriede jelinek carra lucia books. Elfriede jelineks the piano teacher is both a psychological study and social critique. Musical performance and textual performativity in elfriede jelineks the piano teacher 87 special edition word and music studies new paths, new methods 2016 the action they describe. Neugroschel, joachimtranslator jelinek and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. The piano teacher elfriede jelinek 1001 books to read. But their affair is soon threatened by the invasion of the japanese as world war ii overwhelms their part of the world. The piano teacher by elfriede jelinek overdrive rakuten. The leading austrian writer of her generation, she has been awarded the heinrich boll prize for her contribution to german literature. In her writings, jelinek rejected the conventions of traditional literary technique in favour of linguistic and thematic experimentation.
The piano teacher by elfriede jelinek 9781852427504. Nor is it to suggest that the film is bereft of emotion. Powered by hal leonard australia, tpt has grown from its modest beginnings to now becoming an invaluable resource for all piano teachers. Nov 27, 2010 i n michael hanekes 2001 adaptation of elfriede jelinek s novel, the role of the piano teacher is played, with a chilling impenetrability, by isabelle huppert.
Jan 17, 2014 the piano teacher is focused on what for jelinek are the essentials of human behaviour, and she examines the worst traits with a cold eye. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the piano teacher. Into this emotional pressurecooker bounds music student and ladies man, walter klemmer. The film of the piano teacher by michael haneke won the three main prizes at cannes in 2001. It is the kind of novel one consumes in great, greedy gulps, pausing grudgingly only when absolutely necessary. Buy the piano teacher by elfriede jelinek, joachim neugroschel from waterstones today.
The piano teacher, the most famous novel of elfriede jelinek, who was awarded the 2004 nobel prize in literature, is a shocking, searing, aching portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires. Jelinek plunges us into the mind of erika kohut, a repressed piano. Jelineks prosestyle seems to have much in common with her fellow austrian thomas bernhardit oozes out with an almost misanthropic intent. Elfriede jelinek s novel the piano teacher was a sensation from the day it was published some 18 years ago. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. The piano teacher is kinder to its characters, and to its audience.
The leading austrian writer of her generation, she has been awarded the heinrich boell prize for her contribution to german literature. K lee i found this book in a second hand shop and was unable to put it down. Erika kohut is a piano teacher at the prestigious and formal vienna conservatory, who still lives with her domineering and possessive mother. With walter as her student, erika spirals out of control, consumed by the ecstacy of selfdestruction. To say that the piano teacher is selfaware, however, is not to align it with the smirking reflexivity of hanekes funny games 1997 2007. The piano teacher, 1988 addressed issues of sexual repression. Click and collect from your local waterstones or get. The piano teacher 1988 by elfriede jelinek the most popular work from provocative austrian nobel laureate elfriede jelinek, the piano teacher is a searing portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires. The novels protagonist, erika kohut, is a pianist and piano teacher and. Set in 1980s vienna, it describes a culture rotting under the weight of its oppressive, outmoded idealsa place mirrored by the heroines own repressed dreams. According to derrida, language appears as a system of signs that is. With walter as her student, erika spirals out of control, consumed by the ecstasy of selfdestruction.
Open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. I n michael hanekes 2001 adaptation of elfriede jelineks novel, the role of the piano teacher is played, with a chilling impenetrability, by isabelle huppert. The piano teacher should become a disambig page look at the incoming links to this page that arent about the novel, and this should be moved to the disambigd title, restoring the status quo. Download the piano teacher pdf free download the piano teacher pdf free the piano teacher, the most famous novel of elfriede jelinek, who was awarded the 2004 nobel prize in literature, is a shocking, searing, aching portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires. The piano teacher 2001 a study of female sexuality and the dynamics of control, adapted by haneke from a controversial 1983 novel by elfriede jelinek. Translated by joachim neugroschel, it was the first of jelinek s novels to be translated into english. Meet erika kohut, an austrian piano teacher at the vienna conservatory, a bach and shubert enthusiast, multitalented and with a secret face that she unravels in this beautifully written book. In 1952 he meets claire pendleton, the piano teacher of the title, whos come to hong kong with her dull and unimaginative husband, a civil engineer overseeing the building of a reservoir. The growing season may be far off, but 2009 is already providing a bumper crop of outstanding books by firsttime novelists. The most popular work from provocative austrian nobel laureate elfriede jelinek, the piano teacher is a searing portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires. Maybe the signature work of the austrian nobelistthe piano teacher is certainly a unique look under the covers of sexual repression. This month on the ark audio book club we discussed the nobel prizewinning author elfriede jelineks disturbing 1983 novel of repression. The piano teacher by elfriede jelinek sophie mackintosh after 2016 im done with sentimentality, and its hard to think of a less sentimental book than the piano teacher, objectively a masterpiece, subjectively a book that changed my life. In fact, this novel has me stumped more than sound and the fury.