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Elfriede Jelinek
Wonderful Wonderful Times
Originally published in German in 1980 as Die Ausgesperrten
Translated by Michael Hulse
ONE NIGHT AT the end of the fifties an assault is committedin the Vie
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Later (when everyone always knows better) it turns out that the victim was an attorney working for a medium-sized company. The victim was a man who felt totally at home in a household that was kept neat and orderly down to the very last detail, which is something A
The youngsters appropriate the man's wallet. This notwithstanding, he is badly beaten up.
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Rainer, who sees himself as Sophie's one and only boyfriend (which was why he took her in his arms, after all), claws at the victim's clothing in quest of the wallet and ca
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Money isn't our guiding principle, says Sophie in her shimmering fashion. Her parents have a great deal of it, and prosperity has made her wayward.
Hans, the sweat flying from him, is still pounding away at the victim like some mindless machine that destroys the spirit in others. That is how the brother and sister see him: as a machine. A
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The mouths of the grammar school kids and the worker are producing whistling sounds as they turn at a trot into Joha
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There is so much pent-up rage in A