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. 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 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. By Elfriede Jelinek, Joachim Neugroschel, ISBN: 9780802144614, Paperback. Inscribed and dated by Elfriede Jelinek on the title page. 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.įirst American edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book to be translated into English. It's his first novel to be translated into English, and it won the author the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004. Book Synopsis The most popular work from provocative Austrian Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher is a searing portrait of a woman bound. 01:39 Elfriede Jelinek's The Piano Teacher is the disturbing story of a not-so-young woman who is being terrorized by her domineering mother behind a bourgeois facade. Jacket illustration by Michael Christman. 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. Preparatory Piano Literature: Developing Artist Original Keyboard Classics Original Keyboard Classics with opt.First American edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book to be translated into English. WunderKeys Rock Repertoire For Teen Beginners 2: Piano Pieces In The G 5-Finger Scale | With Teacher Duets WunderKeys Rock Repertoire For Teen Beginners: Piano Pieces In The C 5-Finger Scale | With Teacher Duets

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