(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Oct-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Open Letter, ISBN-13: 9781960385253)
Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for LiteratureAs with the rest of her literary career, Dubravka Ugresics final work, A Muzzle for Witches, is uncategorizable. On its surface, the book is an conversation...Loe edasi...
Dubravka Ugresic, Celia Hawkesworth, Michael Henry Heim
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Jun-2023, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Open Letter, ISBN-13: 9781948830645)
From the author of Baba Yaga Laid an Egg and Thank You for Not ReadingFrom the story of Steffie Cvek to The Kharms Case, the pieces in Dubravka Ugresics collecti...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Apr-2022, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Open Letter, ISBN-13: 9781948830454)
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,...Loe edasi...
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by the renowned Yugoslavian writer Dubravka Ugresic begins in the Berlin Zoo, with the contents of Roland the Walruss stomach displayed beside his pool (Roland died in August, 1961). These objects a cigarette li...Loe edasi...
This is one of Dubravka Ugreis best-known novels, a poignant tale of exile in which exile becomes a convenient lens through which to view ones own biography and country. An intellectual of the highest order, Dubravka Ugresic constructs a collage n...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Nov-2020, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Open Letter, ISBN-13: 9781948830225)
From one of Europe’s premier essayists and cultural critics, a new collection about our troubling political times These essays are written on the skin of the times. Dubravka Ugresic, winner of the Neustadt International Prize and one of Eu...Loe edasi...
Dubravka Ugresic, Ellen Elias-Bursac, David Williams
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-May-2018, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Open Letter,, ISBN-13: 9781940953762)
With characteristic wit and narrative force, Fox takes us from Russia to Japan, through Balkan minefields and American road trips, and from the 1920s to the present, as it explores the power of storytelling and literary invention, notions of betraya...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Mar-2014, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Open Letter, ISBN-13: 9781934824894)
Dubbed ?the fantasy cultural studies professor you never had by Ruth Franklin, Ugresic has one finger on the pulse of an exhausted Europe, another in the wounds of postindustrial America. From pieces on Zuccotti Park to ones on nostalgia and Du...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Nov-2011, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Open Letter, ISBN-13: 9781934824573)
Finalist for the NBCC award for Criticism.Whether its 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...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jan-2011, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Grove Press, ISBN-13: 9780802145208)
According to Slavic myth, Baba Yaga is a witch who lives in a house built on chicken legs and kidnaps small children. In Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, internationally acclaimed writer Dubravka Ugresic takes the timeless legend and spins it into...Loe edasi...
Presents a post modern retelling of a Slavic myth through the stories of a writer who grants her mothers final wish by traveling to her hometown in Bulgaria, an elderly woman who wakes up every day hoping to die, a buxom blonde hospital worker who h...Loe edasi...
saadame teile pakkumise kasutatud raamatule, mille hind võib erineda kodulehel olevast hinnast
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.But what does she have to do with a writers journey to Bulgaria in 2007 on be...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2008, Hardback, Kirjastus: Open Letter, ISBN-13: 9781934824009)
Collection of Ugresics witty, sharp essays, primarily focused on life in exile and the absurdities of modern life. Series of incisive essays from Dubravka Ugresic explores the full spectrum of human existence. From bottled-wa...Loe edasi...
Tanja Lucic teaches at the University of Amsterdam and lives on the edge of the citys red light district. Desperate to make ends meet, many of her students find work at the Ministry, a fetish-wear factory in North Amsterdam. Meanwhile, Tanja and h...Loe edasi...
Taking us on travels through Europe, and across to the US, this book offers perspectives on literature, geopolitics, East and West. It also says that while the Eastern bloc is gripped by Western modernization, the West is becoming increasingly Soviet...Loe edasi...
