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Wonderful, Wonderful Times
Elfriede Jelinek
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Description for Wonderful, Wonderful Times
Paperback. Shows how actions of the present are determined by thoughts of the past. Translator(s): Hulse, M. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 170.
'That's brutal violence on a defenceless person, and quite unnecessary, declares Sophie, and she pulls with an audible tearing sound at the hair of the man lying in an untidy heap on the ground. What's unnecessary is best of all, says Rainer, who wants to go on fighting. We ageed on that.' It is the late 1950s. A man is out walking in a park in Vienna. He will be beaten up by four teenagers, not for his money, he has an average amount ? nor for anything he might have done to them, but because the youths are ... Read more
'That's brutal violence on a defenceless person, and quite unnecessary, declares Sophie, and she pulls with an audible tearing sound at the hair of the man lying in an untidy heap on the ground. What's unnecessary is best of all, says Rainer, who wants to go on fighting. We ageed on that.' It is the late 1950s. A man is out walking in a park in Vienna. He will be beaten up by four teenagers, not for his money, he has an average amount ? nor for anything he might have done to them, but because the youths are ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Serpent's Tail
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Condition
New
Weight
170g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852421687
SKU
V9781852421687
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About Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek was born in Austria in 1946 and grew up in Vienna where she attended the famous Music Conservatory. The leading Austrian writer of her generation, she has been awarded the Heinrich Boell Prize for her contribution to German literature. The film by Michael Haneke of The Piano Teacher won the three main prizes at Cannes in 2001. In ... Read more
Reviews for Wonderful, Wonderful Times
A dozen years after the collapse of the Third Reich, four adolescents commit a gratuitously violent assault and robbery in a Viennese park. So begins Jelinek's brilliant new novel, an unrelenting and horrifying exploration of postwar Austria...
Publishers Weekly
The writing is so strong, it reads as if it wasn't written down at all, but as if the ... Read more
Publishers Weekly
The writing is so strong, it reads as if it wasn't written down at all, but as if the ... Read more