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That's brutal violence on a defenceless person, & quite unnecessary, declares Sophie, & 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 arrogant & very pleased with themselves. Their arrogance is their way of reacting to the maggot-ridden corpse that is Austria where everyone has a closet to hide their Nazi histories, their sexual perversions & their hatred of the foreigner. Elfriede Jelinek, who writes like an angel of all that is tawdry, shows in Wonderful, Wonderful Times how actions of the present are determined by thoughts of the past.°°° Elfriede Jelinek, who was born in 1946 & grew up in Vienna, now lives in Vienna & Munich. She has received numerous awards for her literary works, which include not only novels but also plays, poetry, essays, translations, radio plays, screenplays & opera librettos. Her awards

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Author

Elfriede Jelinek

Publisher

Masks S

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9781852421687

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Classics

Rating

3.76 / 5 (538 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13