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DIE KLAVIERSPIELERIN : Roman (German Edition)
by Elfriede Jelinek
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- first
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- ISBN 10
- 3499158124
- ISBN 13
- 9783499158124
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Hamburg, Germany: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, 2007. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/New & Bright; German language. Softcover/NF; light shelfwear w/faint creasing to upper back corner. DIE KLAVIERSPIELERIN (The Piano Player), was first published in 1983; this a re-issue of 2007. Novel of human cruelty from Austrian playwright & novelist, winner of 2004 Nobel Prize for Literature Elfriede Jelinek (1946 -). Story of Erika Kohut, a piano professor at the Vienna Conservatory. She lives with a controlling mother under complete surveillance. Disappointed w/Erika's failed pianist career, the mother reigns in terror. Erika resorts to self-mutilation by knives and inflicting the same cruelty & humiliation suffered at home on to her piano students. Then master student Walter Klemmerer enters the scene. He courts Erika who responds dismissively. When Klemmerer proved undeterred, Erika writes a detailed proposal of sadistic sex, which, being the initiator, would secure her dominance in the union. Klemmerer recoils in disgust but an ugly sexual encounter does occurs --- his disgust turns into hatred and leaves; Erika realizes that she only feels pleasure in suffering & punishment, and returns home. The novel was adapted 2001 to film, under the same title, by Austrian director Michael Haneke; it triumphed at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival: Grand Prix of the Jury and Acting Awards for Isabelle Huppert and Benoît Magimel.
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- Title
- DIE KLAVIERSPIELERIN : Roman (German Edition)
- Author
- Elfriede Jelinek
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- None as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 3499158124
- ISBN 13
- 9783499158124
- Publisher
- Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag
- Place of Publication
- Hamburg, Germany
- Date Published
- 2007
- Pages
- 285
- Keywords
- Literature, Fiction, Novel, Dominant Mothers, Human Cruelty
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