The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek, First American Edition. 1998 HC

Description: New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek. First American Edition 1988. First Printing with full number line 1 through 10 noted on the copyright page. 80pp. Octavo, original quarter gray cloth and pale green paper covered board. Fine in a fine unclipped dust jacket protected in mylar sleeve. ISBN 10: 1555840523ISBN 13: 9781555840525The 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. 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 thirty-eight-year-old, secretly visits Turkish peep shows at night and watched sadomasochistic films. Meanwhile, a handsome, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old student has become enamored with Erika and sets out to seduce her. She resists him at firstbut then the dark passions roiling under the piano teacher’s subdued exterior explode in a release of perversity, violence, and degradation. Jacket design by Krystyna Skalski. Jacket illustration by Michael Christman. Author's photograph by Eva Kern. Translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Sexuality and violence are coupled in this reveling story set in modern-day Vienna by Elfriedge Jelinek, winner of the Heinrich Boll Prize (1986). It's his first novel to be translated into English, and it won the author the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004. The Piano Teacher depicts the emotionally rigorous world of Erika, and the neurotic love triangle that confuses violence for love. 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 post-war years. The novel was adapted into a film in 2001, directed by Michael Haneke, and it won numerous awards, including Best Actor and Best Actress at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, and Best Foreign Film at the 2002 German Film Awards. Well packed in several layers of bubble-wrap and shipped it in a sturdy box.

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