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 clich s. 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.
| ISBN: | 9781564783752 |
| Publication date: | 29th June 2005 |
| Author: | Dubravka Ugresic |
| Publisher: | Dalkey Archive Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 200 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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 clich s.
Lend Me Your Character features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction
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Lend Me Your Character was written by Dubravka Ugresic and published by Dalkey Archive Press
Lend Me Your Character has 200 pages