Lost In Power And Desire

Elfriede Jelinek won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature. However, she is a controversial Austrian authoress. Her works always take the female as the subject, and shows deep solicitude for the female's destiny and their survival state by bold sexual depiction and fierce politics criticism.The thesis has chosen representative work Die Klavierspielerin of Elfriede Jelinek being an object of study. This work is a special sadomasochism story taking the female as the subject. The emotion puzzle and survival difficult position to survive for the female can be revealed out by analyzing the work.This paper consists of six parts. Part one is an introduction about Jelinek's life and works. It points out that Die Klavierspielerin is a special work. Part two analyzes double sadomasochism relationships, obvious and obscure. Comparing Die Klavierspielerin with another two classic sadomasochism works, the O Story and Venus in Furs is in the Part three. It's an expansion. Part four explains the cause of Erica who likes sadomasochism from physiology and mentality. Part five tries to analyze the situation of the female in sadomasochism relationship. As the end of the paper, the sixth part concludes remarks. It tells sexual problem, economic problem, and the female self's fetters are still important. Self's introspection and liberation will be female's pursuit.