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The novel follows Erika Kohut, a piano teacher in her late thirties who teaches at the Vienna Conservatory and still lives in an apartment with her very controlling elderly mother, with whom Erika shares her parents' marriage bed, despite having a room of her own.
- Elfriede Jelinek
- 1983
The protagonist, Erika Kohut, is a middle-aged piano teacher who is struggling with her repressed sexuality and her relationship with her controlling mother. Jelinek uses Erika’s character to explore the ways in which women were expected to conform to traditional gender roles in Austrian society.
Jan 1, 2001 · Set in modern day Vienna, Jelinek's novel plunges us into the mind of Erika Kohut, a repressed piano teacher and failed concert pianist who inflicts pain on herself and engages in unpleasurable sexual voyeurism. She lives with and sleeps in the same bed as her psychotically controlling mother.
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Elfriede Jelineks highly controversial novel The Piano Teacher introduces its protagonist Erika Kohut, a thirty-eight-year-old piano teacher who works at the prestigious Vienna Conservatory.
Jun 13, 2024 · The novel focuses on Erika Kohut, a piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory who lives with her mother despite being in her late 30s.
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...
Oct 13, 2009 · Erika Kohut, piano teacher at the prestigious Vienna Conservatory, is a quiet woman devoted to Bach, Beethoven, and her domineering mother. Her life consists of desperate boredom, neurotic...
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