Dubravak Ugresić

Europe in Sepia

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Hurtling between weltschmerz and wit, drollness and diatribe, entropy and enchantment, it's the juxtaposition at the heart of Dubravka Ugresić's writings that saw Ruth Franklin dub her "the fantasy cultural studies professor you never had". In Europe in Sepia, Ugresić, 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, Ugresić trawls the fallout of political failure and the detritus of popular culture, mining each for the revelation.

Infused with compassion and melancholic doubt, Europe in Sepia 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 Ugresić's raucous instinct for the absurd, despair has seldom been so beguiling.

Über die Autorin / über den Autor:

Dubravka Ugresić is a writer of novels (Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, The Museum of Unconditional Surrender), short story collections (Lend Me Your Character, In the Jaws of Life), and books of essays (Nobody's Home, Karaoke Culture). Born in the former Yugoslavia, Ugresić took a firm anti-nationalistic stand when war broke out in 1991, and was proclaimed a "traitor", a "public enemy", and a "witch". As a result, she left Croatia in 1993 and moved to Amsterdam. Her last collection of essays, Karaoke Culture, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award for nonfiction. Dubravka Ugresić died in March 2023 in Amsterdam.

Preis: CHF 26.40
Sprache: Englisch (aus dem Kroatischen von David Williams)
Art: Broschiertes Buch
Erschienen: 2014 (2013)
Verlag: Open Letter
ISBN: 978-1-934824-89-4
Masse: 230 S.

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