Title: Costly Mistake
Review: When I received my copy of "The Piano Teacher" I realized I ordered the right title but by the wrong author. When I saw it was written by a Nobel Prize winner I thought I might be in for a pleasant suprise. It was a most unpleasant suprise and I'm not talking just about the explict sexual content. A writer is suppose to vary her sentence structure but reading Elfriede Jelinek is like listening to someone who talks on and on and on.. without pausing for breath. It's exausting. Andwho cares about Erika the repressed 38-year-old piano teacher, the lover half her age or her overbearing mother. They are dull. This novel is set in Vienna. Unfortunately it's not in the time of Sigmund Freud. Jelinek could have sent her characters right to his couch instead of inflicting their angst on her readers.
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