- Also Known As:
- Wonderful, Wonderful Times
- Year:
- 1980
- Country:
- Predominant Genre:
- Comedy
- Drama
- Author:
- Outstanding Performances:
- None.
- Premiss:
- The sins of the fathers are visited upon a new generation too disaffected to understand the source of its inarticulate rage.
- Themes:
- Alienation
- Destiny
- Emotional repression
- Grieving
- Identity
- Loneliness
- Narcissism
- Political Correctness
- Pornography
- Self-expression
- Sexism
- Social class
- Solipsism
- Stereotyping
- White culture
- White guilt
- White supremacy
- Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
- Clockwork Orange
- Review Format:
- Book
Although written in a difficult and allusive style, this is an excellent book about the present (2014) decline of White culture.
The novel focuses on four White cultural and psychological constants: Xenophobia, emotional repression, sexual perversion & living in the past. Although written in the third-person, the book gains power by revealing what Whites actually think when they behave badly. In this, the characterisation is superb.
Copyright © 2014 Frank TALKER. Permission granted to reproduce and distribute this posting in any format; provided mention of the author’s Weblog (Esthetics) is included: E-mail notification requested. All other rights reserved.
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