![]() ![]() Money on clothes she'll never wear which Mother wants saved for a new apartment. We do early on learn of slight moves of rebellion on Erika's part, such small things as spending Her chances to be a concert pianist just to hurt Mother. However, we see small signs of trouble brewing in Mother's tightly knit world.įirst there is the ambiguity as to whether or not Erika did in fact throw away ![]() ![]() Mother will declare her love for Erika, which should excuse any possible mistakes that Mother might make." And if Mother does break the silence, she'll tell Erika that everything Mother does is motivated by Love. "Tonight, when they're watching TV, she'll give Erika the silent treatment. Mother bullies and cajoles, screams, slaps, cries and professes love,Īnd always gets her way. Sabotaged her own career in order to spite Mother. What is much less clear is whether this is because Erika doesn't have the talent, or whether she has purposely Wishes and imagines her daughter as a famous concert pianist, but it is quiteĬlear that she's not headed in that direction. "Mother wants to utilize the child's life herself." Mother She been shaped, even brutalized into a "safe" form for herĭomineering mother. Thirty-eight year old Erika Kohut, piano teacher in a Vienna conservatory, is not Translated from the German by Joachim Neugroschel (from the 1983 German edition, Das Klaverspielerin). ![]()
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