Dubravka Ugresic - Böcker

Att minnas och glömma, att älska och svika, att fly och förlora - detta är vad Dubravka Ugresic återkommer till i sitt författarskap. På en genreöverskridande prosa som ledigt rör sig mellan fiktion och essä gestaltar hon ett sökande efter personl...

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I sitt kalejdoskop till bok - en blandning av barndomsminnen, porträtt av vänner och tillfälliga bekantskaper, dagboksanteckningar, beskrivningar av fotoalbum, essäer om konst och litteratur - inventerar Dubravka Ugresic sitt liv, utforskar minnet...

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Nya texter från Europa om Europa. Om imperiedrömmarnas återkomst, om Gayropas förmodade fall, bulgarisk feed-backdemokrati, slovensk kolonialism, den ukrainska hbt-rörelsen efter Euromajdan, den kroatiska kvinnorörelsen efter kommunismen, den rikt...

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Folksagans lömska och gränsöverskridande räv är återkommande motiv i Dubravka Ugresics nya roman - en kaleidoskopisk berättelse som för läsaren från Ryssland till Japan, över slagfälten på Balkan och en resa genom Nordamerika med paret Nabokov, fr...

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Lisica zna mnoge stvari, a je? samo jednu. Taj gr?ki aforizam poslu?io je Isaiahu Berlinu da podijeli pisce na dvije skupine, one koji pi?u i djeluju koriste?i se jednom idejom ? je?eve, i one koji su raznorodni, vi?estruki ? lisice. Poigravaju?i ...

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Knji?evnost, politika, kultura svakodnevice vlastita sje?anja i iskustva savr?eno se pro?imaju u esejima Dubravke Ugre?i?. Mo?e li ko?a poslu?iti kao umjetni?ko djelo, ?to se doga?a s doseljenicima i imigrantima na Zapadu, kakva je uloga umjetnost...

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"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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Baba Yaga is an old hag who lives in a house built on chicken legs and kidnaps small children. She is one of the most pervasive and powerful creatures in all mythology. She appears in many forms: as Pupa, a tricksy, cantankerous old woman who keep...

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Having fled the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, Tanja Lucic is now a professor of literature at the University of Amsterdam, where she teaches a class filled with other young Yugoslav exiles, most of whom earn meager wages assembling leather and ru...

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Having fled the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, Tanja Lucic is now a professor of literature at the University of Amsterdam, where she teaches a class filled with other young Yugoslav exiles, most of whom earn meager wages assembling leather and ru...

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The Museum of Unconditional Surrender- by the renowned Yugoslavian writer Dubravka Ugresic-begins in the Berlin Zoo, with the contents of Roland the Walrus's stomach displayed beside his pool (Roland died in August, 1961). These objects-a cigarett...

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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 wh...

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A whole world seems to orbit within "Nobody's Home". It's a world that looks familiar but strange. Dubravka Ugresic takes us on her whirligig travels through Europe, and across to the US, offering her insightful and unique perspectives o...

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Tanja Lucic teaches at the University of Amsterdam and lives on the edge of the city's red light district. She and her pupils, fleeing the violent break-up of their homeland Yugoslavia, have found temporary refuge in the Department of Slavonic Lan...

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Baba Yaga is an old hag who lives in a house built on chicken legs and kidnaps small children. She is one of the most pervasive and powerful creatures in all mythology. She appears in many forms: as Pupa, a tricksy, cantankerous old woman who keep...

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Finalist for the NBCC Award in Criticism, this collection is riotous, especially the piece about smashing a minibar.

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Finalist for the NBCC award for Criticism.Whether it's commentary on jaded youth, the ways technology has made us soft in the head, or how wrestling a hotel minibar into a bathtub is the best way to stick it to The Man, Ugresic writes with unmatch...

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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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"e;Ugresic is sharp, funny and unafraid. . . . Orwell would approve."e;Times Literary SupplementHurtling between Weltschmerz and wit, drollness and diatribe, entropy and enchantment, it's the juxtaposition at the heart of Dubravka Ugresic'...

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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. T...

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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. Ugre?ic's acerbic...

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Thank You for Not Reading is a biting critique of book publishing: agents, subagents, and scouts, supermarket-like bookstores, Joan Collins, book fairs that have little to do with books, authors promoted because of sex appeal instead of merit, and...

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Die Kultur der Lüge entstand als Reaktion auf den Zerfall Jugoslawiens, auf den unseligen Krieg in Kroatien wie in Bosnien. Die Essays sind von äußerster Schärfe, die mit Ironie, Sarkasmus, Satire anprangern - und analysieren -, was in Ex-Jugosl...

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Esta luminosa novela, un clásico de la literatura europea de las últimas décadas, narra la vida de unos personajes que se ven atrapados entre varias culturas, a medio camino entre el pasado de su propia tradición y el futuro de lo que les depa...

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La ultima obra en espanol de la croata Dubravka Ugresic. Exilio, amor y humor. Un relato sobre las heridas de la vieja Europa narrado desde el otro lado del Atlantico.Durante las guerras yugoslavas de los 90, Dubravka UgreA ic viaja a Middletown, ...

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Folksagans lömska och gränsöverskridande räv är återkommande motiv i Dubravka Ugresics nya roman - en kaleidoskopisk berättelse som för läsaren från Ryssland till Japan, över slagfälten på Balkan och en resa genom Nordamerika med paret Nabokov, fr...

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Smärtans ministerium utspelar sig bland exiljugoslavier (kroater, bosnier, serber) i Holland. På universitetet i Amsterdam möter "de våra" som de kallar sig i förskingringen en kvinnlig litteraturvetare, också hon före detta jugoslav, kroat, som p...

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