The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (SIGNED)
Language: English
Published by New Directions, 2002
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New Directions, 1999. Soft cover. Book condition: new. Brand new copy, *MINT*, Beautiful condition. Later printing. Signed and dated on the title page by Dubravka Ugresic. Ms. Ugresic signed this book in person at City of Asylum Books, Pittsburgh, October 12, 2018. *MINT* signed copy. Winner of the 2016 Neustadt International Prize. This book is available for purchase to customers in the United States only. No orders outside the United States.
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- Title
- The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (SIGNED)
- Author
- Dubravka Ugresic
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0811214931
- ISBN 13
- 9780811214933
Critically acclaimed experimental, literary fiction by the famous Croatian exile author.
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 a life 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."
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About the Author
Celia Hawkesworth was Senior Lecturer in Serbian and Croatian at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London until her retirement. She has published numerous articles and several books on Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian literature, including a study Ivo Andric: Bridge between East and West, and Voices in the Shadows: Women and Verbal Art in Serbia and Bosnia. She has also published numerous translations, including several works by Ivo Andric and Dubravka Ugresic.
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