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The Piano Teacher (German: Die Klavierspielerin [diː klaˈviːɐ̯ˌʃpiːləʁɪn]; transl. "The Piano Player [f.]") is a novel by Austrian Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek, first published in 1983 by Rowohlt Verlag. Translated by Joachim Neugroschel, it was the first of Jelinek's novels to be translated into English. [1]
The Piano Teacher (French: La Pianiste, lit. 'The Pianist') is a 2001 erotic psychological drama film written and directed by Michael Haneke , based on the 1983 novel of the same name by Elfriede Jelinek .
Lee initially wrote The Piano Teacher as a short story and decided to expand the story into a novel length work. [3] Once published, The Piano Teacher , published in November 2009, was on the New York Times bestseller list for 19 weeks and was translated into 26 languages worldwide. [ 4 ]
The Taishō-era arist Nakamura Daizaburō painted The Piano in 1926, which depicts his fiancée dressed in a kimono and performing Robert Schumann's Träumerei on a Russian piano. [12] Playing the piano was adopted in Japan as part of domestic modernity, as opposed to the traditional and pre-modern conception of musicians as social outcasts.
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The Piano Teacher has generally been well received. In The Georgia Straight, Kathleen Oliver called the play "a beautiful meditation on grief, loss, and the healing power of music." She further added, "Dittrich’s unadorned dialogue is refreshingly direct: the characters speak and listen intently to one another, usually without subtext."