Books by Dubravka Ugrešić (8)
Croatia2.
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugrešić EN
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"Baba Yaga Laid an Egg takes a traditional myth and spins it afresh. The result is an extraordinary meditation on femininity, aging, identity, secrets and love." -- taken from jacket front flap.
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El Ministerio del Dolor by Dubravka Ugresic ES
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«Todos estábamos sumidos en el caos Ya no estábamos seguros de qué éramos ni qué queríamos ser», reflexiona al inicio del curso Tanja Lucic ́, profesora croata exiliada de la antigua Yugoslavia La mayoría de sus alumnos de lengua y literatura serbocroata e
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Ministerul durerii by Dubravka Ugrešič RO
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Ministerul durerii (2005) este un roman despre nostalgia apartenentei, despre farmecul si oroarea trecutului recent. Protagonista acestuia, Tanja Luciä, paraseste Zagrebul devastat de razboi si ajunge sa predea limba si literatura fostei Iugoslavii la Universitatea din Amsterdam unei grupe de studenti, la rindul lor exilati. Confruntata cu dificultatea de a gasi un teren comun pentru discutii, Tanja transforma seminariile intr-un program experimental de terapie literara, menit sa exorcizeze demonii prezentului si sa redescopere o coeziune distrusa de razboi. Acest periplu al memoriei... continue
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The Culture of Lies by Dubravka Ugrešić EN
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A funny and cynical collection of essays, apercus and sketches denouncing the perversions of political and cultural life in Croatia. The Culture of Lies was written as a reaction to the collapse of Yugoslavia and the unholy war in Croatia and Bosnia. The collection attacks and attempts to understand events in the former Yugoslavia: aggression against people's own brothers, artificial amnesties; adoption of nationalist fascist ideologies; propaganda and censorship; folklore kitsch as a culture of a lie; writers and intellectuals caught up in the Maelstrom of Nationalism. Ugresic's ascerbic and ... continue
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The Ministry of Pain : A Novel by Dubravka Ugresic EN
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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 rubber S&M clothing at a sweatshop they call the "Ministry." Abandoning literature, Tanja encourages her students to indulge their "Yugonostalgia" in essays about their personal experiences during their homeland's cultural and physical disintegration. But Tanja's act of academic rebellion incites the rage of one renegade member of her class—and pulls he... continue
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The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka Ugresic EN
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Critically acclaimed experimental, literary fiction by the famous Croatian exile author.