Lend Me Your Character - Softcover

Ugresic, Dubravka

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564783758 ISBN 13: 9781564783752

Verlag: Dalkey Archive Press, 2005

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Críticas:

A madcap wit and a lively sense of the absurd . . . Filled with ingenious invention and surreal incident. --Marina Warner"

As long as as some, like Ugresic, who can write well, do, there will be hope for literature. "

Ugresic must be numbered among what Jacques Maritain called the dreamers of the true; she draws us into the dream. "

Ugresic's wit is bound by no preconceived purposes, and once the story takes off, a wild freedom of association and adventurous discernment is set in motion. Open to the absurdity of all pretensions of rationality, Ugresic dissects the social world, especially the endless nuances of gender and sexuality. "

Reseña del editor:

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.

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• Verlag: Dalkey Archive Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1564783758
• ISBN 13: 9781564783752
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200