Piyanist

Pianist Book Description Feminist poet, playwright, translator and novelist Elfriede Jelinek could not go to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in person in 2004 due to her fear of crowds and social phobia, but in the video recorded to be shown at the ceremony, she read from the music stand and said, "Sometimes language finds its way by accident, but it does not go astray, " he said. Jelinek tells the story of Erika Kohu, a sexually repressed piano teacher who lives with her mother in The Pianist, which was adapted into a movie by Austrian director Michael Haneke. Thought to be a musical genius when she was young, Erika is now in her late thirties, still living with her mother and teaching piano at the Vienna Conservatory. This woman, who even shares the same bed with her mother, will suddenly release all her hidden desires, thanks to the sadomasochistic relationship she starts with one of her students, who she realizes is interested in her. Violence, pleasure and love will mix together. Elfriede Jeline's best-known novel, The Pianist, is a shocking masterpiece that breaks taboos on the body, whose music is not listened to and silenced, and the social roles of men and women. "A work so dazzling that it will freeze your blood." –Walter Abish "The Pianist is a clever, sharp-tongued, magnificent portrait of a mother and her daughter, an artist and her lover." –John Hawkes "The fascinating thing about Jelinek is how accurately and sharply it penetrates a world of false ideas of happiness." –Frankfurter Rundschau (From the Promotional Bulletin)