Lend Me Your Character by Dubravka Ugresic
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.
Andr� Gide (1869-1951) was a prolific author of novels, short stories, poetry, plays, travel writing, and autobiography. Though he entered the world of letters as a prominent figure in the symbolist movement, Gide later turned toward a more confessional and exploratory form, ruminating on questions of morality, sexuality, desire, religion, and the nature of the self in his work. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947. Damion Searls has translated eleven books for NYRB Classics, including Uwe Johnson's four-book novel Anniversaries (published in two volumes). This is his second translation of Gide's Marshlands; he also rewrote it as 56 Water Street, the first short story in his collection What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going. Dubravka Ugresic is the author of seven works of fiction, including The Museum of Unconditional Surrender and Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, and six collections of essays. Her most recent book is The Age of Skin: Essays. In 2016 she received the Neustadt International Prize for Literature for her body of work.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781948830645 |
| ISBN 10 | 1948830647 |
| Title | Lend Me Your Character |
| Author | Dubravka Ugresic |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Open Letter |
| Year published | 2023-06-27 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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