Imaginaire érotique féminin et masculin dans le roman La Pianiste d’Elfriede Jelinek
Female and Male Erotic Imagination in the Novel The Pianist by Elfriede Jelinek

Summary/Abstract: In this study, we examine the erotic imagination of women and men in a problematic novel that sparked heated debates at the timeof its publication in 1983, debates resumed with more vigor at the time of attribution to its author of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2004 (in the meantime, the book was also transposed to the cinema in 2001 by the director Michael Haneke). This is the novel The Pianist by Elfriede Jelinek. The two imaginaries (feminine and masculine) that we will submit to the analysis are neither tender nor soft but, on the contrary, extremely violent, being involved in a brutal controversyof the gender type which reveals impulsive frustrations and hard fantasies of two sides.

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