In the Jaws of Life and Other Stories
by Dubravka Ugrešić
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"This is the first American publication of three works by one of Eastern Europe's most original and inventive writers. Dubravka Ugresic's In the Jaws of Life and Other Stories collects two short novels and a group of short stories grounded in fact and informed by fancy. The title novel, Steffie Speck in the Jaws of Life, charts the life of a typist for a lonely hearts column. Laid out like a sewing pattern, with instructions, diagrams, and helpful hints in the margin, it juxtaposes the show more cliches and trite advice of stereotypical women's magazines and popular culture with the genuine despair of the marginalized heroine. The short stories collected in Life is a Fairy Tale (Metaterxies) draw on the author's academic background to produce wickedly funny parodies and droll pastiches of such writers as Daniil Kharms and Gogol. Whether depicting the anonymous lives of small characters in big cities or rewriting great works from a distinctly irreverent perspective, Ugresic is fresh, entertaining, and consistently surprising."--BOOK JACKET. show lessTags
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"An inventive collection, both vivacious and menacing... Ugresic never misses a stitch, and her needle draws blood." --The Observer Complete Review: http://complete-review.com/reviews/ugresicd/jaws.htm
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Dubravka Ugresic was born and raised in what used to be Yugoslavia. In 1993, she left Croatia for political reasons. She has taught in several American and European universities and been awarded many international prizes for her writing
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- Canonical title
- In the Jaws of Life and Other Stories
- Disambiguation notice
- Original title: Štefica Cvek u raljama života
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 891.82354 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature East Indo-European and Celtic literatures West and South Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Slovene, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, and Macedonian) Serbo-Croatian Fiction 1900–1991 Late 20th century 1945–1991
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- PG1619.31 .G7 .A25 — Language and Literature Slavic languages and literatures. Baltic languages. Albanian language Slavic. Baltic. Albanian Serbo-Croatian
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- Languages
- 5 — Dutch, English, Hungarian, Polish, Croatian
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- Paper
- ISBNs
- 10
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