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Dubravka Ugrešić

    27 de marzo de 1949 – 17 de marzo de 2023

    Dubravka Ugrešić fue una reconocida autora que entrelazó magistralmente la ficción y la erudición literaria. Su obra temprana incluyó libros infantiles, pero pronto se volcó a exploraciones profundas de las vanguardias literarias y la prosa contemporánea. La propia ficción de la autora, incluyendo novelas y cuentos, obtuvo un reconocimiento significativo en Yugoslavia e inspiró adaptaciones cinematográficas. Tras el estallido de la guerra en Yugoslavia, Ugrešić adoptó una firme postura antinacionalista y pacifista, que influyó en sus ensayos críticos. Conocidas por su voz única y perspicaces reflexiones sobre la sociedad y la cultura, sus obras han sido traducidas a más de veinte idiomas y han recibido varios premios literarios europeos importantes.

    Dubravka Ugrešić
    Lend me your character
    Fox
    Nobody's Home
    The Museum of Unconditional Surrender
    Culture of Lies
    The Age of Skin
    • The Age of Skin

      • 220 páginas
      • 8 horas de lectura

      From one of Europe's premier essayists and cultural critics, a new collection about our troubling political times

      The Age of Skin
    • 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. Ugresic's acerbic and penetrating essays cover everything from politics to daily routine, from public to private life. With a diverse and unusual perspective, she writes about memory, soap operas, the destruction of everyday life, kitsch, the conformity of intellectuals, propaganda and censorship, the strategies of human manipulation and the walls of Europe which, she argues, never really did fall. Shot through with irony and sadness, satirical protest and bitter melancholy, The Culture of Lies is a gesture of intellectual resistance by a writer branded "a traitor" and "a witch" in Croatia.

      Culture of Lies
    • The Museum of Unconditional Surrender

      • 256 páginas
      • 9 horas de lectura

      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 cigarette lighter, lollipop sticks, a beer-bottle opener, etc.—like the fictional pieces of the novel itself, are seemingly random at first, but eventually coalesce, meaningfully and poetically.Written in a variety of literary forms, The Museum of Unconditional Surrender captures the shattered world of living in exile. Some chapters re-create the daily journal of the narrator's lonely and alienated mother, who shops at the improvised flea-markets in town and longs for her children; another is a dream-like narrative in which a circle of women friends are visited by an angel. There are reflections and accounts of the Holocaust and the Yugoslav Civil War; portraits of European artists; a recipe for Caraway Soup; a moving story of a romantic encounter the narrator has in Lisbon; descriptions of family photographs; memories of the small town in which Ugresic was raised.Addressing the themes of art and history, aging and loss, The Museum is a haunting and an extremely original novel. In the words of the Times Literary Supplement, "it is vivid in its denunciation of destructive forces and in its evocation of what is at stake."

      The Museum of Unconditional Surrender
    • Nobody's Home

      • 276 páginas
      • 10 horas de lectura

      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 Sovietized, with Internet banking, speed dating and automatic supermarket checkouts.

      Nobody's Home
    • Fox

      • 308 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      First new novel in almost a decade from one of Europe's most inventive, boundary-pushing, feminist authors.

      Fox
    • 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 clichés 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," one of Ugresic's funniest stories ever about the strained relationship between a persistent translator and an unresponsive publisher, the pieces in this collection are always smart and endlessly entertaining.

      Lend me your character
    • Europe In Sepia

      • 230 páginas
      • 9 horas de lectura

      Ugresic, ever the flaneur, wanders from the Midwest to Zuccotti Park, the Irish Aran Islands to Jerusalem's Mea Shearim, from the tristesse of Dutch housing estates to the riots of South London, charting everything from the listlessness of Central Europe to the ennui of the Low Countries. One finger on the pulse of an exhausted Europe, another in the wounds of post-industrial America, Ugresic trawls the fallout of political failure and the detritus of popular culture, mining each for revelation.

      Europe In Sepia
    • Karaoke Culture

      • 324 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

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

      Karaoke Culture
    • 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 Languages.

      The ministry of pain
    • Ministry of Pain, The

      • 272 páginas
      • 10 horas de lectura

      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 her dangerously close to another—which, in turn, exacerbates the tensions of a life in exile that has now begun to spiral seriously out of control.

      Ministry of Pain, The