by Elfriede Jelinek · Debols!llo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497938440
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The pianist is Erika Kohut, a mature woman who has always lived in the shadow of a possessive and absorbing mother. In reality, Erika is a frustrated pianist who works as a piano teacher. Defeated by a failure that is but a reflection of a greater defeat, that of escaping an unwanted domain, and trapped in the web of her inhibitions and a perpetual and not always kind vigilance, Erika has learned to be austere and severe. This situation takes a very different course when she meets a student who falls in love with her. Then, through her fragile psychology, her tortuous inexperience of human relationships, the cherished and never spoken fantasies begin to make their way, in which domination and subordination, pleasure and suffering are mixed.
Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She is one of the most decorated authors to write in German and was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power". She is considered to be among the most important living playwrights of the German language.
