Pianist or the object-man. Haneke and Jelinek: Between image and text Cover Image

Pianista sau omul-obiect. Haneke și Jelinek: Între imagine și text
Pianist or the object-man. Haneke and Jelinek: Between image and text

Author(s): Andrei C. Șerban
Subject(s): Austrian Literature, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Art
Published by: Editura Universitatii LUCIAN BLAGA din Sibiu
Keywords: Michael Haneke; Elfriede Jelinek; text vs. image; the object-man; automatism; corporality;

Summary/Abstract: The Michael Haneke’s movie, based on the novel The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek, is a remarcable illustration of the object-man metaphor, a metaphor marking the road of the identitary degeneration into an apathic and thrilling mecanism of daily automatisms which destroy the intimacy and the perception of corporality. Using a series of filming procedures based on silence and lack of dynamism, the Austrian director creates a pinning of the actual human in the middle of a self-destructive and unemotional universe.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 59-63
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Romanian