#erika kohut

[thisdastampdoesnotexist]

[silknest]

the piano teacher study! once again procrastinating haha <3

[francisg]

Type of shit I’ve been on lately (various La Pianiste illustrations)

[belovedviolence]

it's pissing me off that people are grouping alma from phantom thread and erika from the piano teacher into the "horrible women" category... like alma only wanted her husband to slow down a little! and yes maybe poisoning him wasn't the best way but the intent behind it is so innocent! and the only thing horrible that erika does is what she does to herself!! these are not horrible women these are women starved of love

[grusinskayas]

All Erika wants to do is watch. Here, in this booth, she becomes nothing. Nothing fits into Erika, but she, she fits exactly into this cell. Erika is a compact tool in human form. Nature seems to have left no apertures in her. Erika feels solid wood in the place where the carpenter made a hole in any genuine female. Erika's wood is spongy, decaying, lonesome wood in the timber forest, and the rot is spreading. Still, Erika struts around like a queen. (...) Erika lifts up a tissue from the floor; it is encrusted with sperm. She holds it to her nose. She deeply inhales the aroma, the fruits of someone else's hard labor. She breathes and looks, using up a wee bit of her life. There are clubs where you can shoot pictures. Each client selects his model himself, according to his mood and taste. But Erika doesn't want to act, she only wants to look. She simply wants to sit there and look. Look hard. Erika, watching but not touching. Erika feels nothing, and has no chance to caress herself. Her mother sleeps next to her and guards Erika's hands. These hands are supposed to practice, not scoot under the blanket like ants and scurry over to the jam jar. Even when Erika cuts or pricks herself, she feels almost nothing. But when it comes to her eyes, she has reached an acme of sensitivity. (...) Erika watches very closely. Not in order to learn. Nothing stirs or moves within her. But she has to watch all the same. For her own pleasure. (...) Erika can't help it. She has to keep looking. She is off-limits to herself.

The Piano Teacher, Elfriede Jelinek.

[mekaremadness]

The Piano Teacher / Killing Eve

(can't believe im posting abt killing eve in 2023 after that horrible last season)

[3333333mily]

[pink-evilette]

erika kohut is so me

[flowerlikelives]

Literally me

[barnbridges]

i think almost everyone would become a better (or worse) person if they read the piano teacher

[nicollekidman]

tracy lord girlies be like. yes i love tracy lord. i’ve already said too much.

[la-cocotte-de-paris]

UGH.

[francisg]

Bonus one

[ravenkings]

one thing that i think is a really interesting difference between the piano teacher (the book) and the piano teacher (the movie) is that you spend A LOT more time around walter klemmer and in his head in the book than in the movie, and, in doing that, you realize that he’s just as nuts as erika kohut in many ways, but because he’s a young, healthy, conventionally attractive man, he is able to get away with it more than she is (and he KNOWS this and uses it to his advantage.) 

on another note, another thing i find FASCINATING about their relationship that comes from this is, in reading klemmer’s internal monologue, you realize that he actually does want to dominate erika (i.e. choose her clothes, force her to share his opinions, “teach” her things (in order to reverse the power she wields by *actually* being his teacher)) before he plans on eventually dropping her, but then, when she expresses her own desire to be sexually dominated by him and elaborates on exactly how she wants him to do it (which DOES actually include having him choose her clothes as well as more....risqué things....) he’s put off and disgusted while at the same time, the book makes a point of saying he’s aroused by it.

i think the point that’s being made here is that klemmer (and i would suspect more than a few men irl as well...) wants to dominate and victimize women under the guise of being a “casanova” in the sensitive “soft boy” mode, but once he encounters a woman who WANTS to be dominated and victimized, he (supposedly) loses interest bc if she WANTS it and sets the terms, she’s really the one in charge and klemmer cannot have that, even if he finds himself aroused by the idea of the acts themselves.

[grusinskayas]

She has been trained to shine. She has been drilled, she has been taught that she is the sun, the center of all orbits. She has only to stand still, and the satellites will come and worship her. She knows she is better because that is what she is always told. But it's better not to examine her assumption.

The Piano Teacher, Elfriede Jelinek.

[gaydruidpriest]

Erika Kohut is a Miu Miu girl