Dubravka Ugresic, trans. from the Croatian by David Williams. Open Letter (Univ. of Rochester, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (324p) ISBN 978-1-934824-57-3
After her novel Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, Ugresic returns with a brilliant collection of timely essays. In the titular piece, she uses karaoke as a metaphor for a variety of modern phenomena in which every amateur gets his or her fifteen minutes of...
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Dubravka Ugresic, Author, Michael Henry Heim, Translator , trans. from the Croatian by Michael Henry Heim. Ecco $22.95 (257p) ISBN 978-0-06-082584-3
This cerebral, relentlessly bleak novel bears witness to the "convalescence" of exiles from the former Yugoslavia, Slavic literature professor Tanja Lucic and her students, persevering in Amsterdam in the wake of ethnic cleansing back home....
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Dubravka Ugresic, Author, Celia Hawkesworth, Translator , trans. from the Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth. New Directions $14.95 (238p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1493-3
Ugresic has designed this fragmented narrative of war-ravaged contemporary Eastern Europe carefully, so that her portrait of the stalwart but traumatized citizens, offered as a series of closeups, is not entirely available until the very last piece...
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Dubravka Ugresic, Author, Celia Hawkesworth, Translator Viking Books $21.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-670-86016-6
Croatian novelist and journalist Ugresic's quirky, razor-sharp essays comprise a wry look at American life and a jolting, sensitive self-portrait in cultural dislocation. Fleeing wartorn Zagreb in late 1991, she went to Amsterdam, then spent most of
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Dubravka Ugresic, Author, Celia Hawkesworth, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $24.95 (238p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1421-6
This unconventional novel by Croatian writer Ugresic is a collection of fragments--short essays, journal entries, stories, factual items, descriptions of place--that combine to evoke the distinct ""point of pain"" experienced by a political exile....
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Dubravka Ugresic, Author, Celia Hawkesworth, Translator, Damion Searles, Translator , trans. from the Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth. Dalkey Archive $13.95 (221p) ISBN 978-1-56478-298-4
In the bustling Anglo-American literary marketplace, the Eastern European exile doesn't stand a chance, says Ugresic (Have a Nice Day), herself in self-exile from Croatia. "The literary market demands that people adapt to the norms of...
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Dubravka Ugresic, Author, Ellen Elias-Bursac, Translator, Celia Hawkesworth, Translator , trans. from the Croatian by Ellen Elias-Bursac, Celia Hawkesworth, and Mark Th Grove $23 (327p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1927-8
Ugresic's postmodern take on myth, femininity, and aging provides a beautifully written window into Slavic literature, but eventually becomes bogged down in competing narrative threads. The tangentially related sections of the narrative...
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Dubravka Ugrešić, trans. from the Croatian by Ellen Elias-Bursać. Open Letter, $14.95 trade paper (138p) ISBN 978-1-960385-25-3
Novelist and essayist Ugrešić
(The Culture of Lies), who died in 2023, delivers an incisive critique of the nationalist and patriarchal literary establishment that arose in Croatia following the 1992 dissolution of Yugoslavia. Presented as an...
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