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. A haunting tale of morbid voyeurism and masochism, The Piano Teacher, first published in 1983, is Elfreide Jelineks Masterpiece.Jelinek was awarded the. As a child and adolescent she took lessons in piano and organ playing at the conservatory in Vienna. 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. Elfriede Jelinek was born in Mrzzuschlag, Austria in 1946. The Piano Teacher depicts the emotionally rigorous world of Erika, and the neurotic love triangle that confuses violence for love. It's his first novel to be translated into English, and it won the author the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004. Sexuality and violence are coupled in this reveling story set in modern-day Vienna by Elfriedge Jelinek, winner of the Heinrich Boll Prize (1986). Jacket illustration by Michael Christman. A young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by the author on the title page, “For Adrian Elfriede Jelinek Wien, 12.1.09.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. The Piano Teacher: Directed by Michael Haneke. $850.00 Item Number: 133735įirst American edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s first book to be translated into English.
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