This is Jelinek, and she doesn't do wonderful, wonderful times. The times here are anything but wonderful. The war may have ended more than a decade ago, but Nazism still lurks; evil behaviour is ever present on the streets and behind the closed doors of Vienna, in what I found to be the most chilling, violent, misanthropic, nihilistic and perverse of her novels. The best too though, by a mile. Jelinek a kick in guts that makes you want to vomit captures the dark side of Austrian society where a misogynistic cranky and crippled former SS-officer beats his wife and takes pornographic photos of her that he hides under his pistol, while their teenage children, Rainer; who gets a right hiding now and again too, and Anna; who is arguably worst than her brother - humiliating a boy through sex in a school bathroom, take out their frustrations on the general public with brutal attacks and wallet pinching. Without reason. Without feelings. Turning this into a violent foursome are the slightly older Hans; whose father died in a concentration camp, and the spoiled rich brat Sophie; who Rainer thinks is his girlfriend. What makes it even worse is that these youngers aren't dunces; they are intelligent, and absolutely have promising futures ahead of them. There is nothing nice about this novel at all. It's level of unpleasantness is off the chart. But then, there isn't meant to be anything pleasant about. The degraded characters are a product of the Austrian post-war era, where racial, xenophobic, and cruel violence never upped and left. Even the victims of the crimes come off as perpetrators too - including a guy on a tram who gropes one of the girls and encourages her to play with his prick through his trousers. The arrogant Rainer, who is obsessed with the s of Camus and Sartre and sees himself as a great intellectual who is superior to everybody else, shocked, but didn't really surprise me, with a final blood-splattered act - and that's putting it lightly - that I won't ever be forgetting. For me, her most brilliant and lyrically poetic novel - even in translation the use of language was so impressive - that both highlights the effect on the minds of youngsters that have abusive pushy over-bearing parents, and how fascist ideology was very much alive kicking in post-war Europe. Not for the faint of heart. Some may find some of it grimly funny, but not me. The kind of book that makes you want to scrub yourself down in the shower afterwards.austria fiction70 s °°°·.°·..·°¯°·._.· ????? ??????? ???????? ·._.·°¯°·.·° .·°°° ?·.·´¯`·.·? ?????? ???????? ??????? ????????? ??736 836

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