Abstract: As one of the third generation of the Austrian contemporary writers, Elfriede Jelinek, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, has always been looking for the passion for innovation in the experiments, as well as seeking the new approach to present arts, in accordance with the literature tradition since the time of Wittgenstein. She pays great attention to the self-value of the text in various aspects such as narrative techniques, narrative language, narrative style, text selection, and the change of time and space. In The Piano Teacher , one of Elfriede Jelinek’s masterpieces, Jelinek broke the antiquated language and the fixed traditional thinking mode, experimented and innovated audaciously to enable her works with its own independent spirits and pioneering consciousness.

Key words: Jelinek, The Piano Teacher, language, metaphor, pioneering consciousness