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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 833.914
EAN: 9781852421687
ISBN: 1852421681
Label: Serpent's Tail
Manufacturer: Serpent's Tail
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: July 01, 1990
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Sales Rank: 577001
Studio: Serpent's Tail
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Written by the recipient of the 1986 Heinrich Boell Prize for German literature and the author of 'The Piano Teacher', this novel explores the darker side of life in Austria.
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Rating:  - Horrendous
Elfriede Jelinek's intellect and ability to write is more than good enough, but her constant negativity, her need to arrogantly disturb the reader's enjoyment as they read with self-parody and the literary equivalent of theatrical illusion, her condescending and vacuous tone, and her self-indulgence completely ruins this book. Her radical feminist political agenda and her compulsion to depict the world as a mirror of her own personal neurosis (she is a self-described sociophobe) infect every chapter, ... Read More
Rating: - Shocking, vicious, surprising
Wonderful,Wonderful Times is the ironic title for a nasty, engrossing story of four young people in post-war Vienna. The author spares no mercy in skewering their character, their dreams, their hopes on her didactic pen. So much venom.
These are characters you will love to despise and which the author delights in showing in the worst possible light and is creative enough to make it almost poetic--if you see the beauty in psychic wounds which bleed hatred.
The plot is a series of encounters ... Read More
Rating:  - Ages of Iron
I should ask myselff, how will I present this book. Considering that I have written review (or what stands for those nowadays) of every (almost) book of Elfriede Jelinek here on Amazon, I should try to avoid repetiton of myself and start inventing few new phrases, what one could call - expanding ones vocabulary.
Even with my mind having set itself on that kind of track, it is hard not to repeat oneself. Evil tongues out there could say that it cannot be done in any other way since Jelinek writes ... Read More
Rating:  - Be Careful What You're Looking For
I like to check out Nobel Prize-winning novelists. I even look forward to each October with the hopes of discovering (for myself) a new Isaac B. Singer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Heinrich Boll, Grazia DeLadda, Knut Hamsun, Sinclair Lewis, Jose Saramago, or some other outstanding author. There are some choices that I read who didn't appeal to me but it was still worth the look. Elfriede Jelinek fits in to the latter category for me. I had known that she was a controversial selection when she got the award in ... Read More
Rating: - Wonderful, Wonderful Literature
In a time when our own children are shooting their classmates to relieve their sense of isolation, this book is a must. By a Nobel Prize winner, it is a study of youth's disaffection and how it is created by that youthful tendency toward idealism - idealism that is often simply idealism against society instead of for something - and class differences. Although it takes place in a particularly drifting and disrupted time and place, those years after the second world war in Europe, it seems pretty topical. The ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 833.914
EAN: 9781852421687
ISBN: 1852421681
Label: Serpent's Tail
Manufacturer: Serpent's Tail
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: July 01, 1990
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Sales Rank: 577001
Studio: Serpent's Tail