Another novel: The Piano Teacher
I recently read Elfriede Jelinek’s The Piano Teacher. I previously had seen the arresting and controversial movie based on it, starring Isabelle Huppert. Jelinek is Nobel Prize winning novelist who writes in the post-war Germanic realist-nihilist style, often with graphic and disturbing sexuality. As a novel for pianists, this one disappoints. The main character Erika […]
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