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The Museum of Unconditional Surrender
Author | : Dubravka Ugrešić |
Publsiher | : I.B. Tauris |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2001-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0811214931 |
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Critically acclaimed experimental, literary fiction by the famous Croatian exile author.
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender
Author | : Dubravka Ugrešić |
Publsiher | : Orion |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1999-07-01 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0753807351 |
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This is a deeply East European novel in flavour reminiscent of Kundera and Borges. Through weaving together fragments, stories, and diaries Dubravka Ugresic, a prize-winning novelist in the former Yugoslavia, captures the world of a group of characters living in Berlin and Lisbon. Ugresic convincingly brings to life a world and characters preoccupied by questions of exile, nationalism, angels, parables, the Berlin zoo, the layers of meaning in one's past and future frozen by the camera. Underpinned by a calm note of tragedy. The Museum of Unconditional Surrender is a beautifully written novel, both bitter and funny in tone.
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender
Author | : Dubravka Ugrešić |
Publsiher | : New Directions Publishing Corporation |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0811214214 |
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The Museum of Unconditional Surrender -- by the renowned Yugoslavian writer Dubravka Ugresic--begins in the Berlin Zoo, with the contents of Roland the Walrus's stomach displayed beside his pool (Roland died in August, 1961). These objects--a cigarette lighter, lollipop sticks, a beer-bottle opener, etc.--like the fictional pieces of the novel itself, are seemingly random at first, but eventually coalesce, meaningfully and poetically.
Unconditional Surrender
Author | : Evelyn Waugh |
Publsiher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2022-08-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : EAN:8596547162711 |
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'Unconditional Surrender' is a satire on the English class system. The writer takes a dig at the way the ruling class and their sense of entitlement, even when the country is in a global conflict, can plan through the bureaucracy to make their way into the far less dangerous and more comfortable theatres of war.
Lend Me Your Character
Author | : Dubravka Ugrešić |
Publsiher | : Dalkey Archive Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1564783758 |
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"Splendidly ambitious . . . A brilliant, enthralling spread of story-telling and high-velocity reflections. In her indignation and in her sorrow Ugresic speaks for many people, many experiences. She is a writer to follow. A writer to be cherished." Susan Sontag"
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg
Author | : Dubravka Ugresic |
Publsiher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2011-01-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780802197634 |
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“Multilayered narratives come together as an exploration of femininity, identity, mortality, and folklore’s wondrous powers.” —Booklist According to Slavic myth, Baba Yaga is a witch who lives in a house built on chicken legs and kidnaps small children. In Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, internationally acclaimed writer Dubravka Ugresic takes the timeless legend and spins it into a fresh and distinctly modern tale of femininity, aging, identity, and love. With barbed wisdom and razor-sharp wit, Ugresic weaves together the stories of four women in contemporary Eastern Europe: a writer who grants her dying mother’s final wish by traveling to her hometown in Bulgaria, an elderly woman who wakes up every day hoping to die, a buxom blonde hospital worker who’s given up on love, and a serial widow who harbors a secret talent for writing. Through the women’s fears and desires, and their struggles against invisibility, Ugresic presents a brilliantly postmodern retelling of an ancient myth that is infused with humanity and the joy of storytelling. “Ugresic’s postmodern take on myth, femininity, and aging provides a beautifully written window into Slavic literature.” —Publishers Weekly
Culture of Lies
Author | : Dubravka Ugresic |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-07-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1948830787 |
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The Culture of Lies is one of the most intelligent and lucid accounts of an appalling episode in history. It shows us the banality and brutality of nationalism and the way that nationalistic ideology permeates every pore of life. Ugresic's acerbic and penetrating essays cover everything from politics to daily routine, from public to private life. With a diverse and unusual perspective, she writes about memory, soap operas, the destruction of everyday life, kitsch, the conformity of intellectuals, propaganda and censorship, the strategies of human manipulation and the walls of Europe which, she argues, never really did fall. Shot through with irony and sadness, satirical protest and bitter melancholy, The Culture of Lies is a gesture of intellectual resistance by a writer branded "a traitor" and "a witch" in Croatia.
Unconditional
Author | : Marc Gallicchio |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2020-07-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780190091125 |
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A new look at the drama that lay behind the end of the war in the Pacific Signed on September 2, 1945 aboard the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay by Japanese and Allied leaders, the instrument of surrender that formally ended the war in the Pacific brought to a close one of the most cataclysmic engagements in history. Behind it lay a debate that had been raging for some weeks prior among American military and political leaders. The surrender fulfilled the commitment that Franklin Roosevelt had made in 1943 at the Casablanca conference that it be "unconditional." Though readily accepted as policy at the time, after Roosevelt's death in April 1945 support for unconditional surrender wavered, particularly among Republicans in Congress, when the bloody campaigns on Iwo Jima and Okinawa made clear the cost of military victory against Japan. Germany's unconditional surrender in May 1945 had been one thing; the war in the pacific was another. Many conservatives favored a negotiated surrender. Though this was the last time American forces would impose surrender unconditionally, questions surrounding it continued through the 1950s and 1960s--with the Korean and Vietnam Wars--when liberal and conservative views reversed, including over the definition of "peace with honor." The subject was revived during the ceremonies surrounding the 50th anniversary in 1995, and the Gulf and Iraq Wars, when the subjects of exit strategies and "accomplished missions" were debated. Marc Gallicchio reveals how and why the surrender in Tokyo Bay unfolded as it did and the principle figures behind it, including George C. Marshall and Douglas MacArthur. The latter would effectively become the leader of Japan and his tenure, and indeed the very nature of the American occupation, was shaped by the nature of the surrender. Most importantly, Gallicchio reveals how the policy of unconditional surrender has shaped our memory and our understanding of World War II.