Dubravka Ugrešić
Список книг автора Dubravka Ugrešić
Europe in Sepia
"Ugresic is sharp, funny and unafraid. . . . Orwell would approve."—Times Literary Supplement[/i] Hurtling between Weltschmerz and wit, drollness and diatribe, entropy and enchantment, it's the juxtaposition at the heart of Dubravka Ugresic's writings that saw Ruth Franklin dub her «the fantasy cultural studies professor you never had.» In Europe in Sepia[/i], Ugresic, ever the flâneur, 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 postindustrial America, Ugresic trawls the fallout of political failure and the detritus of popular culture, mining each for revelation. Infused with compassion and melancholic doubt, Europe in Sepia[/i] centers on the disappearance of the future, the anxiety that no new utopian visions have emerged from the ruins of communism; that ours is a time of irreducible nostalgia, our surrender to pastism complete. Punctuated by the levity of Ugresic's raucous instinct for the absurd, despair has seldom been so beguiling. Dubravka Ugresic[/b] is the author of several works of fiction and several essay collections, including the NBCC award finalist, Karaoke Culture. She went into exile from Croatia after being label a «witch» for her anti-nationalistic stance during the Yugoslav war. She now resides in the Netherlands. David Williams[/b] did his doctoral research on the post-Yugoslav writings of Dubravka Ugresic and the idea of a «literature of the Eastern European ruins.» He is the author of Writing Postcommunism.
Karaoke Culture
Finalist for the NBCC award for Criticism. "Ugresic is sharp, funny and unafraid. . . . Orwell would approve."—Times Literary Supplement[/i] Over the past three decades, Dubravka Ugresic has established herself as one of Europe"s greatest—and most entertaining—thinkers and creators, and it's in her essays that Ugresic is at her sharpest. With laser focus, she pierces our pop culture, dissecting the absurdity of daily life with a wit and style that's all her own. 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 unmatched honesty and panache. Karaoke Culture[/i] is full of candid, personal, and opinionated accounts of topics ranging from the baffling worldwide-pop-culture phenomena to the detriments of conformist nationalism. Sarcastic, biting, and, at times, even heartbreaking, this new collection of essays fully captures the outspoken brilliance of Ugresic's insights into our modern world's culture and conformism, the many ways in which it is ridiculous, and how (deep, deep down) we are all true suckers for it. Dubravka Ugresic[/b] is the author of several works of fiction and several essay collections, including the NBCC award finalist, Karaoke Culture. She went into exile from Croatia after being label a «witch» for her anti-nationalistic stance during the Yugoslav war. She now resides in the Netherlands. David Williams[/b] did his doctoral research on the post-Yugoslav writings of Dubravka Ugresic and the idea of a «literature of the Eastern European ruins.» He is the author of Writing Postcommunism.
