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Elfriede Jelinek‘s 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. As the book follows the story of Erika, Jelinek reveals her protagonist‘s underlying sadistic, masochistic, voyeuristic, phallic and even fetishistic layers.
The novel follows protagonist Erika Kohut (German: [ˈeːʁika ˈkoːhʊt]), a sexually and emotionally repressed piano teacher, as she enters into a sadomasochistic relationship with her student, Walter Klemmer (German: [ˈvaltɐ ˈklɛmɐ]), the results of which are disastrous.
- 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.
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...
The piano teacher of the title is Erika Kohut, a woman in her late thirties, who teaches at the Vienna Conservatory of Music. She lives with, and sleeps in the same bed as, her mother, who “is old enough to be her grandmother” (p. 3).
- Julian Humphreys
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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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....
