“The Piano Teacher” – a novel of lust and domination written in the biting style that, in the Swedish Academy’s description, reveals “the absurdity of society’s clichés and their subjugating power” – was No. 1,163,804 on Amazon.com’s sales rankings early Thursday, according to The Associated Press. By Friday, it had climbed to No. 9.
Oh, what a Nobel Prize will do to your sales!
Austrian novelist and playwright Elfriede Jelinek was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Jelinek studied at the Vienna Conservatory and used her knowledge of music to “underscore the perversity of the main character, who participates in a musical tradition that trains women to play the piano in order to attract a husband.”
In the winter of 2013 The Women’s Project Theatre in NYC performed Jelinek’s play JACKIE based on the myths “surrounding her (Jackie Kennedy Onassis) well-coiffed veneer”
JACKIE is a disturbing exploration of submission, power, and the hypocrisy of everyday life. – See more here
Carol Balawyder 
Carol..
Great spotlight. “The Piano Teacher” is such a raw and quite odd film… Intense and deep…Excellent writer …
Best wishes to you, Aquileana 😀
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Thank you. Thanks for stopping by, reading and commenting. 🙂
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Thank you for sharing it!
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🙂
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That doesn’t look like my kind of film . . . but maybe I shouldn’t judge a movie by its cover, um, trailer. 😎
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Sounds like someone who knows how to tell the fullness of a woman’s story and do it well. Love that she won the Nobel. happy 4th.
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That’s some leap in sales position!
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No kidding! It’s all in a day’s work. 🙂
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I will have to check out the “The Piano Teacher”!
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I’m glad the post caught your interest. 🙂
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Wow! This looks like a seller for sure. I am a bit confused as to Jackie Kennedy, however. I really should have gotten to know more about her, but at the time, life was toooo busy. And I guess the interest wasn’t there.Thanks for sharing your knowledge. 🙂
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I just watched the movie, thanks for all this information, I had not watched it yet.
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Added! Right up my alley. 🙂
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she’s been right about Jackie B-K-O… 😉
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