Beautiful beautiful time

Author: (Austrian) Elfriede Jelinek, Chen Min, Liu Haijing
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: A real case, a story of youthful suffering. Originally, youth is not just a time of growth, but also a time of destruction. "What is admirable is how Jelinek uses such rich details to highlight the behaviors of the petty bourgeois society, precisely embedding them in the backdrop of Austria's economic boom." — Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany) "There has been nothing sharper about the 1950s than this." — Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany) 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature winner Elfriede Jelinek's masterpiece. Includes exclusive interview with Jelinek translated by Lin: Women, Growth, Writers. In fact, what we see are our own shadows. The Good, the Very Good Times is Elfriede Jelinek's masterpiece, the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature winner. The work confronts the narrow and complacent petty bourgeois society and life with sharp and incisive language, set against the backdrop of post-war Vienna in the 1950s. The main characters in the book are young people aged 17 or 18, who often gather to chat, loiter aimlessly on the streets, and rob pedestrians in the dark, thereby venting their dissatisfaction with society and inner turmoil. Through their descriptions of life experiences, the work reveals the social truth hidden behind the facade of peace in the early stages of economic boom.