Dubravka Ugresic
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The Museum of Unconditional Surrender
'A writer to cherish' Susan Sontag 'The story of a shattered life can only be told in bits and pieces'A pink cigarette lighter, lollipop sticks, a beer-bottle opener: these are some of the contents of Roland the Walrus's stomach, displayed in the Berlin Zoo. As our narrator wanders the city, she recalls the objects and memories, dreams and reflections that make up her life - a photo album, a recipe, a fleeting love affair - as they connect to reveal the fractured reality of being an exile. Written in the aftermath of the breakup of Yugoslavia, The Museum of Unconditional Surrender is a quietly profound, absurdly humorous meditation on displacement, yearning and the weight of the past.
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Amerikan Kurgulugu
Annem baska insanlarin ölümlerini biriktiriyor, kumbaradaki bozuk paralarmis gibi onlari kederle tikirdatiyor.Amerikan Kurgulugu bir kurgu-sözlük, yani kurguluk. Balkan edebiyatinin en önemli isimlerinden Dubravka Ugrei, 1990larin basinda, Yugoslavya parcalanirken gecici olarak Amerikaya gider. Connecticutta bir üniversitede konuk ögretim görevlisi olarak gecirdigi aylarda tuttugu bu edebi sözlük; ABDnin rahatlik kültürünü, aliskanliklarini ve dillerini didik didik eder. Kosu bantlari, beden takintisi, televizyon programlari ve akademik nezaket kaliplari, yazarin gözünde hem büyüleyici hem de tekinsizdir. Sözlükteki her madde kisisel, politik ve edebi bir tartisma alani acar. Amerikan yasami üzerine yazilmis gibi görünen bu metinler, aslinda yerinden edilmisligin izini sürer. Amerikan Kurgulugu, hem Batiya yazilmis bir mektup hem Dogu Avrupadan yükselen sessiz bir agittir.Yirminci yüzyilin en büyük mitlerinden biri, yirminci yüzyilin ortalarinda Hollywood ile Madison Meydani arasinda hayat bulan Americana yani Amerikanin kendine dair sahip oldugu imajidir. Yillar icinde olusturulan bu mit, Warholun Campbell corba konservesini resmettigi tablosunda en sofistike haline ulasti ve o zamandan bu yana filmlerde, romanlarda, televizyonda ve bir kez daha hayatin icinde tekrarlandi. Bugün milyonlarca insanin corba mi yoksa mit mi höpürdettikleri tam olarak belli degil.
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Muzzle for Witches
Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature As with the rest of her literary career, Dubravka Ugresic's final work, A Muzzle for Witches, is uncategorizable. On its surface, the book is a conversation with the literary critic Merima Omeragić, covering topics such as "Women and the Male Perspective," "The Culture of (Self)Harm," and "The Melancholy of Vanishing." But the book is more than a simple interview: It's a roadmap of the literary world, exploring the past century and all of its violence and turmoil—especially in Yugoslavia, Ugresic's birth country—and providing a direction for the future of feminist writing. One of the greatest thinkers of the past hundred years, Ugresic was one-of-a-kind, who novels and literary essays pushed the bounds of form and content, and A Muzzle for Witches offers the chance to see her at her most raw, and most playful.
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Culture of Lies
"The Culture of Lies is one of the most intelligent and lucid accounts of an appalling episode in history. It shows us the banality and brutality of nationalism and the way that nationalistic ideology permeates every pore of life."--
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Lend Me Your Character
From the author of Baba Yaga Laid an Egg and Thank You for Not Reading From the story of Steffie Cvek to "The Kharms Case," the pieces in Dubravka Ugresic's collection Lend Me Your Character are always smart and endlessly entertaining. The former story paints a picture of a harassed and vulnerable typist whose life is shaped entirely by cliches. She searches endlessly for an elusive romantic love in a narrative punctuated by threadbare advice from women's magazines and constructed like a sewing pattern. The latter story is one of Ugresic's funniest and is about the strained relationship between a persistent translator and an unresponsive publisher. The stories 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 Ugresic's reputation as one of Eastern Europe's most playful and inventive writers."
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Thank You for Not Reading
A blistering, laugh out loud takedown of every aspect of the book industry-from editors to agents to booksellers to best-selling celebs
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The Age of Skin
From one of Europe's premier essayists and cultural critics, a new collection about our troubling political times
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American Fictionary
A fictional "dictionary" contrasting the barbarism of Balkan politics with the shallowness of America's cultural obsessions.
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Fox
First new novel in almost a decade from one of Europe's most inventive, boundary-pushing, feminist authors.
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Aci Bakanligi
Tanja Luci. Zagrebli. Ögretmen. Savas sonrasi Yugoslavyayi terk edip Amsterdama yerlesiyor. Yalniz. Hüzünlü. Kimsesiz. Kimsesizliginde kimligini ariyor Luci.Babasi ölmüs. Annesi bunamis. Ögrencileri... Ögrencileri ona elinin altindan kayip gidenleri, kaybedilenleri hatirlatiyor. Onlar da kendisi gibi eski Yugoslavyali, bu yüzden dehset dolu gecmisleriyle basa cikabilmek icin Yugonostalji calisiyor, Yugomitoloji okuyorlar. Bellek calismalari. Savasin sürükleyip götürdüklerini geri kazanabilirlermis gibi...Luci bir kuyuya düsüyor sanki; boslukta.20. yüzyilin en önemli Hirvat yazarlarindan Dubravka Ugresicten, nereye ait oldugunu, ne yapmasi gerektigini bilemeyen, bir yandan yasananlari unutmaya, diger yandan unutturmamaya calisan kayip bir kadinin hikayesi Aci Bakanligi.
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Europe in Sepia
Dubravka Ugresic's follow-up to the NBCC Award Finalist Karaoke Culture and features some of her sharpest and funniest pieces yet.
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Karaoke Culture
Finalist for the NBCC Award in Criticism, this collection is riotous, especially the piece about smashing a minibar.
€ 15,50