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 Das
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It is a play and I first saw
a performance that has been filmed in Vienna on TV. Then I bought
the book and was totally blown away! Her style to use
voices in one character is not easy to read, but honest as
only life can be! So I recommend that book, although it might
be hard to follow for people who are not familiar with the
history and present political situation in Austria. It is mainly
about an accident in Kaprun, a small village in the Alps where
a huge factory creating energy by water is build and 155 People
died during this accident. Jelinek let all the people speak:
the dead, the forgotten, even the trees ... So this piece of
art is funny, shocking and provocative, but the best picture
not only of the Austrian society but maybe of the society of
the western world, too.
/Johannes, 19, Germany |
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Lust |
It is a wonderful social criticism; womens issues have to be boldly addressed.
/Seetha Vijayakumar, 25, India
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The
Piano Teacher
(Die Klavierspielerin)
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Deceptively vulgar, the book sheds a light of the bleakness of human psychology and relationship, even within a family. Power-play, conflict, hierarchy and society are portrayed (or even distorted) in an extremely subversive angle. Vividly appalling yet an incisive social examination, it challenges the porous boundary separating pornography and literature or perhaps tries to marry the two worlds.
/Valentino Yonathan Febianto, 19, Singapore
Her books present a cruel world where the reader finds a society of violence, the obedience, the killer and the victim, the way by which the conformism of the media industry inserts and alienates the consciences, paralyzes any power of resistance against the social unjustice, and the depression of the other sex. The style of her writing is unique, she balances between the poetry and the literature, between the myth and the anthem, between theater and cinema, between novels and tragedy ...
/Eva Theotokatou, 67, Greece
This book is recommended for the sheer gamut of emotions it evokes in the reader ... if the suffocating dominance of the mother shocks you, the poignancy of the scene where the father is committed to an asylum will move you too ... if, on the one hand, the sado-masochism of Erika disgusts you, her victimisation in the end moves you too ... this book is a roller-coaster ride of emotions ... I'd say get into it, enjoy the whole spectrum of emotions!
/Nisha, 29, Kuwait
It seemed to me the truth about the dark side of love and submission.
/Riccardo Spadotto, 34, Italy
By the time you reach page number 20 you already get the story,
the complex mind of this poor woman who is enslaved by her own mother. Erika Kohut, the piano
teacher, is a bird whose wings were cut, whose dreams were drowned in a forced and unfruitful
dedication to art. But when one of her students falls in love with her, this sad woman have only a
sadistic and masochist love to offer, a natural reaction of anyone who is forced to be locked
inside herself. It makes you sick. It makes you sad. The words, the characters, the story itself:
All of this explodes in your head in a powerful scream against humiliation, false morality and
everything that is wrong in this stupid world. A rebel masterpiece!
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Women as Lovers
(Die Liebhaberinnen) |
It can help us perceive how power
structures inside everyday life, inside the life of ordinary communities,
oppress women, but this is all told with a beautiful style and
plot.
/Stefania Zampiga, 47, Italy |
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