Erika Kohut is in her late thirties. By day, she confronts her unrealised ambition as a concert pianist teaching at the Vienna Conservatory, while at night she skulks through porn shows and spies on couples in the park, confronting her inadequate awareness of her own sexuality.
Kendall Petersen seeks to examine the notion of power including its manifestations and consequences in social, sexual, and interpersonal relationships in The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek, based on an analysis of the three main relationships narrated in the text.
Not only does it become clear that social and...