The Nobel Prize in literature has gone to Elfriede Jelinek, whom the Associated Press calls an “Austrian feminist writer.” One of her masterworks is described this way: “The novel, and the film, tells the story of a veteran piano teacher, Erika, a harsh and demanding taskmistress who indulges her extreme sexual tastes with hardcore pornography and voyeurism. She becomes sexually involved with a student – but only under her terms and dictates.” Here’s more: “She had a best seller in 1989 with ‘Lust,’ which she has described as portraying ‘the violence by the man against the woman’ in a conventional marriage.”