Wonderful, Wonderful Times - Brossura

Jelinek, Elfriede; Hulse, Michael

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1852421681 ISBN 13: 9781852421687

Casa editrice: Serpents Tail, 1990

Riassunto

An exploration of life in post-World War II Austria follows a sadistic, unrepentant ex-Nazi, his battered wife, and their disaffected son and daughter as the shadow of Europe's recent violent past haunts their lives.

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Recensione:

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 author's demon spirit is entering first a boy and then a girl, a structure, a thing, a totality, to let it speak its horrible truth. (The Scotsman)

L'autore:

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 Böll 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 2004, Elfriede Jelinek was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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• Editore: Serpents Tail
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• ISBN 10: 1852421681
• ISBN 13: 9781852421687
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256