She does not drink , does not smoke, even layer to 36 years in the mother's bed and loves to stay home. Whenever his schedule as a piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory permit, she likes to frequent the porn cinemas, the peepshows and thickets of the Prater. And when one of his students fall in love with her, Erika Kohut knows to offer in exchange for a hackneyed script, clean to polish the old relationship of master and slave. Raw, fierce and at the same time an irresistible comic, this book does not spare a mother's love and his vain ambition, or the venerable institution in Vienna great music, or sex and neurosis.
At its exit, I saw the movie and I found him annoying, hard, but played to perfection.
I get out of this reading a little groggy. Indeed, everything is dense and unrelenting in this book. Here's a novel in two parts just identified, no chapter, and the contents of each part is barely ventilated. The density of the text makes the content even heavier. I feel like a breath of reading, because we do not know where to stop, although that we should stop, so it's difficult. This book does not read in one go, it requires that we take his time.
Although the plot of the story lies not in private, the impression given is that of an enclosure, a lock psychological characters, including the two female protagonists.
Erika is a professor of piano at the Conservatory of Music in Vienna. She is 36 years old and living (again) with her mother. ... And the first lines, one imagines what the psyche of the child, as likes to call his mother. The mother who is tyrannical, guilt, infantilizing, demeaning, jealous of her daughter, who never made room for the father, who will train with Erika and a couple pretty murky.
Erika, in fact, sharing the bed with her mother married, and is installed in a dependent relationship with his mother, who constantly reminds her of the sacrifices made for her, so she dedicated to her art: music.
"The art of Erika, Erika's passion are one: the music, heavenly power. "
" Often the mother is taken to worry because everything having to learn First, he learns and in pain, that confidence is good, but control is better. "
Chez Erika, anything that can be closed is closed. "
Erika educated rigid, authoritarian, devoid of any image and benchmarks male, man has been demonized by the mother. And this is his drama. There is an abyss between the civilized image, rigid, brittle, smooth and it gives when it teaches "Madam Professor" and the depraved wanton, and neurotic when it comes out of the conservatory to go into the peepshow, and playing the voyeur in the park a bit hot in the city of Vienna.
"But Erika does not want to act, she just wants to watch. "
This lack of reference male, Erika will be unable to love, which by her maternal education is unable to love. His relationship to men seems quite compromised.
Erika feels nothing and never felt anything. It is so callous as cardboard tarred in the rain. "
So when a student younger than she would fall in love, they will maintain the relationship can only be slavery, perverse and violent.
Although the story is clearly focused on sexuality and its deviations e, and that the author is clear about this, the net remains in the range of acceptability. The author savings to the reader, by an impeccable style, the vulgarity, and not averse user here and there a quite caustic humor.
These two women, for reasons that eventually come together to inspire me sad. They are more pitied than blamed, even the mother, which we know explicitly not much about his past, but that one does not imagine it very fulfilling.
Jelinek-editions Jacqueline Chambon (1988) / Point-250 pages
Elfriede Jelinek was born in 1946 in Styria . Organist, composer, novelist, playwright and pamphleteer, she received the Nobel Prize in 2004. It is considered the heir to the great Thomas Bernhardt. "Austria means to me a constant challenge. Finally, this love-hate is a continual fertile soil for writing. "Elfriede Jelinek, who lives in Vienna in a retreat from his fierce Nobel Prize, is perpetually connected to the world through the Internet and all forms of media.
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