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.
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.".
Meanwhile, a handsome, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old student has become enamored with Erika and sets out to seduce her.
Her life appears boring, but Erika, a quiet thirty-eight-year-old, secretly visits Turkish peep shows at night and watched sadomasochistic films.
Erika Kohut is a Piano Teacher at the prestigious and formal Vienna Conservatory, who still lives with her domineering and possessive mother.
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
