'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 agreed 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 and 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 and 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.
Wonderful Wonderful Times
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Engleza
Publishing Date:
1990
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Paperback
Page Count:
240
ISBN-10:
1852421681
Original Title:
Wonderful Wonderful Times
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ISBN:
9781852421687
Dimensions: l: 12.5cm | H: 20cm | 188g
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