Wonderful, Wonderful Times

Wonderful, Wonderful Times (German: Die Ausgesperrten) is a novel by Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek, published in 1980 by Rowohlt Verlag.

An English translation by Michael Hulse was published in 1990 by Serpent's Tail.

The novel follows a group of four Viennese teens during the 1950s as they violently engage with the previous generation's Post-World War II legacy.

The novel does not use traditional chapter demarcations and focuses largely on the internal thoughts of the characters.

Through the portrayal of the Austrian family Witkowski, the reader is able to see the relation between daily fascism with the family and an undigested Austrian National Socialist history.