Elfriede Jelinek

Michael Hulse

An exploration of life in post-World War II Austria follows a sadistic, unrepentant ex-Nazi, his battered wife, and their disaffected son and daughter as the shadow of Europe's recent violent past haunts their lives.

Wonderful, Wonderful Times

In post-World War II Austria, Gerti, a woman on the verge of a breakdown due to her husband's relentless sexual attentions, wanders away from home one day and is rescued by an ambitious young man who turns out to be much like her husband.

Lust. Fiction

a novel

Greed

La Pianista

Ironischer Roman um 2 Näherinnen einer Wäschefabrik in einer österr. Landgemeinde: Die Frage was können diese Menschen vom Leben erwarten (ist sozialer Aufstieg in einer verkrusteten Gesellschaft möglich?)

Roman

Die Liebhaberinnen

Nebentitel

Al- ʻās̆iqāt

Martin Chalmers

Two female friends living in the Austrian Alps search for the perfect marriage as an escape from life working in a factory, but find that love, marriage, and children make little difference in their bleak lives.

Women as Lovers

رواية

المستبعدون

Piyanist

Asik Kadinlar

Muziekdocente Erika Kohut is midden dertig en leeft alleen met haar moeder, die haar volkomen in haar macht heeft. Ontroerend beeld van het leven van een vrouw die na jarenlange geestelijke en lichamelijke mishandeling niet meer in staat is een liefdesrelatie op te bouwen.

Die Klavierspielerin

38-year-old Erika Kohut, a piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory, still lives with her domineering mother. Erika has a weakness for buying clothing that she will never actually wear, secretly visits Turkish peep shows and watches sadomasochistic films. When a handsome, self-absorbed 17-year-old student attempts to seduce Erika, she resists, but the relationship between teacher and pupil spirals rapidly out of control, and Erika becomes consumed by the ecstasy of self-destruction.

The Piano Teacher

Pianistka

Theaterstücke

Die Schutzbefohlenen. Wut. Unseres

Älskarinnorna

Erika Kohut teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory by day. By night she trawls the city's porn shows while her mother, whom she loves and hates in equal measure, waits up for her. Into this emotional pressure-cooker bounds music student and ladies' man Walter Klemmer. With Walter as her student, Erika spirals out of control, consumed by the ecstasy of self-destruction. A haunting tale of morbid voyeurism and masochism, The Piano Teacher, first published in 1983, is Elfreide Jelinek's Masterpiece. Jelinek was awarded the Nobel Prize For Literature in 2004 for her 'musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichs and their subjugating power. The Piano Teacher was adapted into an internationally successful film by Michael Haneke, which won three major prizes at Cannes, including the Grand Prize and Best Actress for Isabelle Huppert.

An essay for the stage from 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature Laureate Elfriede Jelinek focusing on the ills of capitalism.

Rein Gold

A bleak novel from Austrian writer Elfried Jelinek, concerning two female factory workers who seek love and the perfect man. Brigitte and Paula end up with husbands who are stupid or overweight and unattractive.

Milenky

A corrupt country policeman, Kurt Janisch seduces lonely women in order to rob them of their lucrative real estate, but when a teenage girl is found dead, his schemes begin to unravel.

A Novel

Erika é uma pianista frustrada e amarga, que tiraniza os alunos no Conservatório de Viena e preenche o vazio interior com passeios de voyeur pela capital austríaca. Em casa, vive em permanente conflito com a mãe, que controla até seu guarda-roupa. O cotidiano árido e regrado de Erika é abalado, porém, quando ela se envolve com um aluno quinze anos mais jovem, submetendo-se a uma neurótica e violenta relação sadomasoquista.

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