Wonderful Wonderful Times

by Elfriede Jelinek

Serpent’s Tail, 1990
First English edition
ISBN 9781852421687
Paperback

Condition: Very Good
a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing and bumping to edges, corners and covers, age toned pages (see photographs)

“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 or anything he may have done to them, but because the youths are arrogant and very pleased with themselves.  This arrogance is their way of reacting to the decaying corpse that is Austria, where everyone has a closet in which to hide their Nazi histories, their sexual perversions and their hatred of the foreigner.”.”