Thread: Anybody read the "Piano Teacher"?

From this year Nobel prize winner Elfriede Jelinek. What is it like?

Sexuality and violence are coupled in this brilliant, uncompromising book set in modern-day Vienna, by the winner of the 1986 Heinrich Boll Prize. Erika Kohut, a spinster in her mid-30s, has been selected by her domineering mother to be sacrificed on the altar of art. Carefully groomed and trained, she's unfortunately not gifted enough to become a concert pianist. Instead, she teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory. She still lives at home, and in the eyes of the world is the dutiful daughter. But there's another, perversely sexual side of Erika that she finds difficult to repress. She goes to a peep show, frequents the local park where Turks and Serbo-Croats pick up women and, just for kicks, slices herself with a razor. When one of her students, Walter Klemmer, falls in love with her, Erika demands sadomasochistic rituals before she'll agree to sleep with him. While the subject matter is deliberately perverse, Jelinek gets behind the cream-puff prettiness of Vienna; this novel is not for the weak of heart. Violence is a cleansing force, a point that brings back uncomfortable overtones of an Austria 50 years ago.

On topic; No I havent. =)

Off topic;
"Im not coming to Sweden" - Elfriede Jelinek
"I hope I get to enjoy the money" - Elfriede Jelinek

Fucking Elfriede Jelinek I hope she doesnt get to enjoy the money, the cheap bastard. Wants something for nothing. I would gladly go to Austria if I got a wheelbarow (sp?) full of money.

She only got the prize cuz it was 8 years since a woman got it, I hate that kind of politics.