Research Catalog

Title

Europe in sepia / Dubravka Ugresic ; translated from the Croatian by David Williams.

Author

Ugrešić, Dubravka

Publication

Rochester, NY : Open Letter, 2014.

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Details

Additional Authors

Williams, David, 1976-

Description

230 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"Hurtling between Weltschmerz and wit, drollness and diatribe, entropy and enchantment, it's the juxtaposition at the heart of Dubravka Ugresic's writings that saw Ruth Franklin dub her "the fantasy cultural studies professor you never had." In Europe in Sepia, Ugresic, 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, Ugresic trawls the fallout of political failure and the detritus of popular culture, mining each for 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 Ugresic's raucous instinct for the absurd, despair has seldom been so beguiling" --

Uniform Title

Europa u sepiji. English

Alternative Title

Europa u sepiji.

Subject

• Ugrešić, Dubravka > Europe
• Ugrešić, Dubravka > Social and political views

Note

• "Originally published in Croatian as Europa u sepiji, Beograd: Fabrika knjiga 2013"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Europe in sepia -- Nostalgia -- Europe in sepia -- Wittgenstein's steps -- Mice shadows -- The Croatian fairy -- The museum of tomorrow -- Manifesto -- My own little mission -- Circus -- Fatal attraction -- Bad pupils -- Liquid times -- Jumping off the bridge -- A mouthful -- Soul for rent! -- The code -- The dream of Dorian Gray -- A middle finger -- Who is Timmy Monster? -- Endangered species -- Can a book save our life? -- A women's canon? -- Zagreb zoo -- What is an author made of? -- On-zone.

ISBN

• 9781934824894 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1934824895 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2013030200

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library