--- product_id: 41826126 title: "Wonderful, Wonderful Times" brand: "serpent's tail" price: "131 zł" currency: PLN in_stock: true reviews_count: 7 category: "Book" url: https://www.desertcart.pl/products/41826126-wonderful-wonderful-times store_origin: PL region: Poland --- # Wonderful, Wonderful Times **Brand:** serpent's tail **Price:** 131 zł **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Wonderful, Wonderful Times by serpent's tail - **How much does it cost?** 131 zł with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pl](https://www.desertcart.pl/products/41826126-wonderful-wonderful-times) ## Best For - serpent's tail enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted serpent's tail brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Wonderful, Wonderful Times ## Images ![Wonderful, Wonderful Times - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/31JK5jqsdtL.jpg) ![Wonderful, Wonderful Times - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/514aMl2h0sL.jpg) ![Wonderful, Wonderful Times - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41sKSSxOaQL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Dark, accusatory, brilliant *by S***9 on Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2005* I only became aware and interested in Jelinek after her Nobel win, because to be honest I'd never heard about her beforehand (not many in the U.S. have.) After surviving the black elegance of The Piano Teacher I decided to read this one next, intrigued by the setup and interested in how she would present this material. Overall, it serves as a brutal companion piece to The Piano Teacher; whereas the former is about the morbidity within the instructor, this one explores the sick tendencies inherent in the pupils. The four teenagers who steal, lie, beat, and (in one case) murder are all metaphors for Jelinek's portrait of modern-day Austria as a wasteland full of twisted secrets and a general disreguard for life. One wouldn't think it'd be worthwhile to spend free time exploring such subject matter, but Jelinek's storytelling abilities are so confident enough, her prose so determined enough, and her ability to make sadism blase strong enough, that you leave the novel wondering where the sharp kick in the guts came from. Each of the kids embodies a specific trait that contributes to the gloom following everyone around, and in time all the lust, violence, revenge, and anger permeating the text culminates in a grotesque act repellant in any other book, but in Jelinek's world seems quite fitting. This book is for anyone interested in dense literature unflattering to the human condition. While unsettling, it is also very necessary. ### ⭐⭐⭐ Be Careful What You're Looking For *by R***N on Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2006* 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 2004. When I looked uo her works, I came across titles like "Lust", "Women as Lovers", "Desire" and others that left me reluctant to go further. However, "Wonderful Wonderful Times" looked more positive; it isn't. It starts out violently and ends even more so and none of it made any sense although the author did her best to give it meaning.I have to admit that I had trouble getting through this book. It is depressing and it focusses on a generation without purpose in modern day Austria. Half way through i thought of limiting the time I was wasting on "Wonderful Wonderful Times". However, I decided to stick with it. As I read more I began to realize that I was getting the author's meaning (I think). In a world that is born out of shameful defeat, what can a successive generation grasp for a foundation to build upon. What standards of ethics and morality exist when an entire country sided with a total absence of ethics and morality in WWII. The result is not a pretty sight to see and the question I had to ask myself was whether to blame or praise the messenger. I chose both, I chose neither.I have searched for many years for a book that brings to life what it must have felt like to return to a homeland that was as disgraced in defeat as was Nazi Germany and its' Axis allies or, to a lesser extent, Imperialist Japan. I have found some that have come close to letting me sense what I had assumed to be the dual depressions of shame and loss. I'm not sure why I felt a need to understand this except to realize that these modern day countries have shown that rehabilitation is achievable in relatively short time. I wanted to understand what the steps of the process were like. Ironically, I think "Wonderful Wonderful Times" has come closer to that theme than just about anything else I've read. However, it gave me a picture darker that what I thought I'd find. Do I blame Jelinek for the reality I was looking for or do I realize that I had already decided what it was I wanted to find irregardless of whether it was the truth or not. I don't know if Jelinek has given us the real truth or just a skewered, angry version of what she thought of as the truth.I found "Wonderful Wonderful Times" to be a hard book to want to keep reading and with a message that I want to be way off-target. I'm not sure if my disappointment rests with the author or with the truth. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Book Rating *by S***N on Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2012* I gave this book to my son for one of his Christmas presents. He loved it. 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