Overview
La pianista es una densa e inteligente, pero amarga, inmersión en la vida de una mujer cuya forzada soledad y sordo sufrimiento es paradigma de muchas vidas de mujer.
Erika Kohut es una pianista frustrada que ejerce de profesora de piano y siempre ha vivido bajo la sombra de una madre posesiva y absorbente. Vencida por un fracaso que no es sino trasunto de una derrota mayor, la de escapar de un dominio indeseado, y presa en la telaraña de sus inhibiciones y de una perpetua vigilancia,
Erika ha aprendido a ser austera y severa. Esta situación toma un curso muy diferente cuando conoce a un alumno que se enamora de ella. Entonces, a través de su frágil psicología, de su tortuosa inexperiencia en las relaciones humanas, comienzan a abrirse paso las fantasías acunadas y nunca dichas, en las que se mezclan dominio y subordinación, placer y sufrimiento.
«Para mujeres y hombres como Jelinek el oficio de escribir revalida y consolida su posición de absoluta excepcionalidad en los tiempos que corren.» - Jordi Llovet, El País
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
From the Nobel Prize-winning Austrian author: a “brilliant, uncompromising” novel that “gets behind the cream-puff prettiness of Vienna” - Publishers Weekly.
Erika Kohut teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory by day. By night she trawls the city's porn shows while her mother, whom she loves and hates in equal measure, waits up for her. Into this emotional pressure-cooker bounds music student and ladies' man Walter Klemmer.
With Walter as her student, Erika spirals out of control, consumed by the ecstasy of self-destruction. A haunting tale of morbid voyeurism and masochism, The Piano Teacher, first published in 1983, is Elfreide Jelinek's Masterpiece.
Jelinek was awarded the Nobel Prize For Literature in 2004 for her 'musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power.
The Piano Teacher was adapted into an internationally successful film by Michael Haneke, which won three major prizes at Cannes, including the Grand Prize and Best Actress for Isabelle Huppert.
Erika Kohut es una pianista frustrada que ejerce de profesora de piano y siempre ha vivido bajo la sombra de una madre posesiva y absorbente. Vencida por un fracaso que no es sino trasunto de una derrota mayor, la de escapar de un dominio indeseado, y presa en la telaraña de sus inhibiciones y de una perpetua vigilancia,
Erika ha aprendido a ser austera y severa. Esta situación toma un curso muy diferente cuando conoce a un alumno que se enamora de ella. Entonces, a través de su frágil psicología, de su tortuosa inexperiencia en las relaciones humanas, comienzan a abrirse paso las fantasías acunadas y nunca dichas, en las que se mezclan dominio y subordinación, placer y sufrimiento.
«Para mujeres y hombres como Jelinek el oficio de escribir revalida y consolida su posición de absoluta excepcionalidad en los tiempos que corren.» - Jordi Llovet, El País
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
From the Nobel Prize-winning Austrian author: a “brilliant, uncompromising” novel that “gets behind the cream-puff prettiness of Vienna” - Publishers Weekly.
Erika Kohut teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory by day. By night she trawls the city's porn shows while her mother, whom she loves and hates in equal measure, waits up for her. Into this emotional pressure-cooker bounds music student and ladies' man Walter Klemmer.
With Walter as her student, Erika spirals out of control, consumed by the ecstasy of self-destruction. A haunting tale of morbid voyeurism and masochism, The Piano Teacher, first published in 1983, is Elfreide Jelinek's Masterpiece.
Jelinek was awarded the Nobel Prize For Literature in 2004 for her 'musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power.
The Piano Teacher was adapted into an internationally successful film by Michael Haneke, which won three major prizes at Cannes, including the Grand Prize and Best Actress for Isabelle Huppert.
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