Today, I would like to introduce you to a "notorious" Austrian female writer, the winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature, Elfred Jelinek.
Why is Jelinek a notorious writer? Let's take a look at what German-speaking literary circles have to say about her.
There are too many descriptions of sex and evil in Jelinek's **, but there is no love, no beauty, and no light of human nature! ”There's only one thing in Jelinek's **, and that's a constant stream of garbage! ”
Jelinek's ** has shaped a cruel and unforgiving world! ”
Jelinek was the callous, ruthless, and most rebellious moralist Austria had ever seen! ”
Elvred Jelinek.
Don't look at the comments that are so ugly, but that doesn't stop Jelinek from reaping various prestigious literary awards.
Prior to winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004, she was also awarded the Heinrich [gf] 2022 [gf] Berlin Prize, the Peter [gf] 2022 [gf] Weiss Prize, Germany's highest literary award, the Birchner Prize, the Heine Prize, the Berlin Theater Prize, and the Franz [gf] Kafka Prize 2022 ......It can be said that almost all the most prestigious awards in German-language literary circles have been reaped by Jelinek.
For this reason, she is considered by many to be one of the best female writers of contemporary German-language literature.
The Nobel Prize citation for Jelinek reads: "Her work may indeed give us a dark picture of life, but Jelinek is not a pessimist through and through, because in her pessimism there is an air of self-pity and silent prayer." What emerges from her curse is the pleasure of slander for the loss of hope, the light of the black sun. ”
What we want to share with you today is Jelinek's masterpiece "The Piano Teacher". This ** tells the story of the almost ** mother-daughter relationship between the extremely depressed female piano teacher Erica and her mother, as well as the sadomasochistic love story between Erica and her student Kremer.
It is worth mentioning that this ** was also adapted into a movie of the same name, played by French goddess star Elisabeth Huppert, and won the Best Actress award at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.
Erica is a female piano teacher in her forties. Her father died young. Erica never married, living with her mother.
Erica's mother is a neurotic control freak. What does a mother have to go to be called a neurotic control freak?
The mother needs to keep track of Erica's whereabouts at all times. Whether Erica is going to the meeting, teaching the students in the classroom, or in the café, the mother's ** is always with her, and she must control her daughter in her own hands at all times. All of Erica's money was in her mother's hands. In order to prevent Erica from attracting bees and butterflies outside, her mother forbade Erica to buy beautiful dresses. At home, Erica did not have her own room, she had to sleep in the same bed with her mother.
All in all, Erica's life is under the absolute surveillance of her mother. Even though Erica is almost forty years old, in the eyes of her mother, Erica is still a child who needs to be controlled. A child does not need to have its own secrets.
The mother's domination of her daughters has severed their normal social relationships and caused Erica's extremely distorted personality.
Erica fears her mother's rule, but Erica can't do without it.
Erica can't do without her mother's rule, but Erica wants to rebel against her mother's rule like a prank. Erica, who was forced to turn puberty into a hunting ban, has an almost ** craving for sex.
Erica will run to the suburbs with her mother on her back** erotic show. In this filthy little box, Erica performs attentively and calmly. Erica is like a queen on top, standing on a console capable of despising everything, while indulging her sexual cravings and using pornography as a pastime; While suppressing his own desires, he is only an indifferent and arrogant **.
Erica would also carry her mother behind her back in the bathroom to cut her own private parts with a razor blade, calmly and restrainedly watching her blood flow out. "The blood, drop by drop, gradually became a continuous trickle, and then this trickle began to merge into an evenly flowing red stream."
Because of her mother's education, she has always believed that lust is the abyss of sin. But Erica's desires drive her to cross the boundaries of fear again and again. Lust is taboo, but it also brings Erica the pleasure of imagination. Her heart is constantly longing for the pleasure of the sensual world, and the more she is suppressed, the more intense this pleasure amplified by imagination becomes.
Kremer, who is in his early twenties, is a student of Erica. The relationship between them is like that between a hunter and a prey.
Kremer fell in love with this cold teacher, Erica. But this liking is more of a desire to conquer.
As for Erica, of course, she was also aware of Kremer's feelings, and her heart was just as stirring. Kremer's pursuit satisfies Erica's vanity and provokes Erica's desires. However, Erica deliberately turned a blind eye to Kremer's courtesy and tormented Kremer with his aloof indifference. Erica refused to have sex with Kremer, did not listen to Kremer's pleas, did not allow him to self-esteem, and even let Kremer expose his body like an exhibitionist, standing in the bathroom where someone could push the door open at any time, without Erica's permission, Kremer could not even make any movements.
In this relationship, Erica is the hunter, she dominates the rhythm and order of the relationship, mentally tormenting Kremer who bows down to her.
However, when Erica thought she had Kremer firmly in the palm of her hand, she wrote a letter to Kremer. It was this letter that completely reversed the relationship between the hunter and the prey between the two.
In the letter, Ericaro listed what she asked Kremer to do. She wanted Kremer to be her master, to tie herself up with a belt or rope, and to gag her mouth with a ** or something, to prevent her from crying or begging for mercy; She hoped that Kremer would humiliate her viciously, kick her with his feet, and whip her mercilessly with a belt or whip; She hoped that Kremer would completely ignore her pleas and cruelly ** her ......
Kremer was terrified, he felt fear, shame, and disgust, and Erica was no longer the charismatic object of conquest in his eyes, but a filthy monster.
But, after the fear, Kremer felt a faint sense of excitement again.
Erica, who gave her hole cards to Kremer, can be said to have surrendered, and she is completely mentally ruined. Now Kremer knew Erica's sore feet. Kremer began to seek revenge on Erica. He comes up with the trick of torturing Erica at the beginning, rejecting Erica's courtship, laughing at Erica's affection, and insulting Erica's personality.
At this time, the roles of the two people are completely reversed, Kremer, who was obedient to Erica at the beginning, becomes the hunter in the hunting game, and Erica, who is high up at the beginning, becomes Kremer's prey.
One night, Kremer broke into Erica's house, locked Erica's mother in her room, and then violently assaulted Erica. He slapped Erica hard and punched and kicked her. He wounded Erica's stomach, kicked Erica's nosebone, and even cracked Erica's ribs, and then Kremer ** Erica. Eventually, Kremer walked away, leaving Erica, who was badly wounded, lying on the cold living room floor.
Kremer was relieved to have done all this, and through violence, he completely washed away the shame that Erica brought him, proving his masculine dignity.
The hunter has left the hunting game as a victor, and here, only the physically and mentally wounded Erica remains.
Pain has always been Erica's way of feeling life, she thinks that pain can feel real life, that pain can bring pleasure beyond real life. But the real world told her that all the pleasures were imaginable. When Kremer really beats her and **s her, Erica realizes that the pleasure she imagined didn't exist.
Lift the veil of imagination, and there is only endless pain behind it.
Both Erica and Kremer want supremacy in the relationship between the sexes. They always put themselves in the position of hunters, and want to hold the dominant power firmly in their hands.
This is precisely the reason why we don't see a trace of pure love in the teacher-student relationship between Erica and Kremer. There is no warmth, no romance, no selflessness, only naked desire and power.
This sadomasochistic relationship also extends to Erica's relationship with her mother.
Erica's mother imprisoned Erica's life with all kinds of control methods, becoming a more authoritative abuser than Kremer. She forbade Erica to fall in love, and even forbade her to get married, and she would rather keep her children on her belt forever than let her mature.
From time to time, Erica rebels against her mother's control, but she is mentally dependent on her mother's control. When she is frustrated in her relationship, the only thing she thinks about is to go home and return to the sadomasochistic relationship with her mother. Despair, but not necessarily utter despair. At least in Erica and her mother's deformed world, they need each other.
At this moment, the book writes about the mother's psychology like this:The emotional storm that Erica brought at her made her feel very satisfied. She felt as if she had been chased. A person is valuable because she is needed by others. This is probably also the premise of love. ”In other words, in this torturous relationship, both Erica and her mother gained security.
There's no denying that Jelinek, the author of this book, is bold, and her depictions of sex and sadomasochism are simply jaw-dropping. Her language is like a cruel and merciless knife, mercilessly cutting open the inner world of the characters with poisonous sores. Through these repressive and ** characters, a cruel and ruthless world is described. In Jelinek's writings, we can see that women who have suffered injustice are powerless to resist the imposed fate, natural desires are distorted by extreme repression, and the vulgar industrial entertainment of modern society continues to corrode people's ......
Staff Writer: Elior, Master of Comparative Literature, East China Normal University.February** Dynamic Incentive ProgramEditor: Lily Chow.