Dubravka Ugrešić

Baba Yaga is a witch-like character who flies around on a giant mortar, kidnapping (and presumably eating) small children. She lives in a house on chicken feet. She is generally a terrifying figure, portrayed not only in literature but also film, animation and music throughout Russian culture.Dubravka Ugresic takes the story of Baba Yaga and weaves it into something completely fresh. The result is an extraordinary meditation on femininity, ageing, identity, secrets, storytelling and love.

Baba Yaga Laid an Egg

The heroine of this novel is a middle-aged Croatian and the novel is composed of fragments. She reflects on exile, life in Berlin, there's a recipe for caraway soup and a romantic encounter in Lisbon.

The Museum of Unconditional Surrender

First new novel in almost a decade from one of Europe's most inventive, boundary-pushing, feminist authors.

ull of candid, personal, and opinionated accounts of topics ranging from the baffling worldwide-pop-culture phenomena to the detriments of conformist nationalism. Sarcastic, biting, and, at times, even heartbreaking, this new collection of essays fully captures the outspoken brilliance of Ugresic's insights into our modern world's culture and conformism, the many ways in which it is ridiculous, and how (deep, deep down) we are all true suckers for it.

Karaoke Culture

A funny and cynical collection of essays, observations, and sketches denouncing the perversions of political and cultural life in Croatia.

Antipolitical Essays

The Culture of Lies

Aci Bakanligi

Okumadığınız İçin Teşekkürler

(patchwork roman)

Štefica Cvek u raljama života

La edad de la piel

Ellen Elias-Bursać

Every day and age has its rules. Currently, good behavior dictates political correctness, evade conflicts, espouse tolerance, and make no hasty judgments. To be judgmental is viewed as one of the most reprehensible human traits. This book breaks the rules of good behavior, because it bickers. This series of thought-provoking and incisive essays from Dubravka Ugresic explores the full spectrum of human existence. From life in exile to life in prison, from bottled-water drinking tourists to Eurovision, what was hidden in plain sight is here exposed.

Essays

Nobody's Home

موطن الألم

Muzej bezuvjetne predaje

Ministarstvo boli

Lisica

מוזיאון הכניעה ללא תנאי

Baba Jaga zniesla vajce

En kvinde i 60'erne beretter fra sit exil i Tyskland om sin og sine nærmestes skæbner under og efter borgerkrigen i Jugoslavien i 1990'erne

roman

Damion Searls

The pieces collected in Lend Me Your Character - the novella "Steffie Cvek in the Jaws of Life" and a collection of short stories entitled "Life Is a Fairy Tale" - solidify Dubravka Ugresic's reputation as one of Eastern Europe's most playful and inventive writers. From the story of Steffie Cvek, a harassed and vulnerable typist whose life is shaped entirely by cliches as she searches relentlessly for an elusive romantic love in a narrative punctuated by threadbare advice from women's magazines and constructed like a sewing pattern, to "The Kharms Case," detailing the strained relationship between a persistent translator and an unresponsive publisher, the pieces in this collection are always smart and endlessly entertaining.

Lend Me Your Character

Dubravka Ugresic

"A brilliant, enthralling spread of story-telling and high-velocity reflections . . . Ugresic is a writer to follow. A writer to be cherished." Susan Sontag

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