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From the story of Steffie Cvek to "The Kharms Case," the pieces in Dubravka Ugresic's collection Lend Me Your Character are always smart and endlessly entertaining. The former story paints a picture of a harassed and vulnerable typist whose life is shaped entirely by cliches. She searches endlessly for an elusive romantic love in a narrative punctuated by threadbare advice from women's magazines and constructed like a sewing pattern. The latter story is one of Ugresic's funniest and is about the strained relationship between a persistent translator and an unresponsive publisher. The stories 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 Ugresic's reputation as one of Eastern Europe's most playful and inventive writers."
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About the Author
An acclaimed novelist and essayist, Dubravka Ugresic is a native of the former Yugoslavia who left her homeland in 1993 for political reasons. She now lives in Amsterdam.
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“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.” (New Criterion)
“Ugresic must be numbered among what Jacques Maritain called the dreamers of the true; she draws us into the dream.” (The New York Times)
“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.” (World Literature Today)
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- PublisherDalkey Archive Press
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1564783758
- ISBN 13 9781564783752
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages246
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