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Lädt ... Karaokekulturvon Dubravka Ugrešić
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Finalist for the NBCC award for Criticism. "Ugresic is sharp, funny and unafraid. . . . Orwell would approve."--Times Literary Supplement Over the past three decades, Dubravka Ugresic has established herself as one of Europe"s greatest--and most entertaining--thinkers and creators, and it's in her essays that Ugresic is at her sharpest. With laser focus, she pierces our pop culture, dissecting the absurdity of daily life with a wit and style that's all her own. Whether it's commentary on jaded youth, the ways technology has made us soft in the head, or how wrestling a hotel minibar into a bathtub is the best way to stick it to The Man, Ugresic writes with unmatched honesty and panache.Karaoke Culture is full of candid, personal, and opinionated accounts of topics ranging from the baffling worldwide-pop-culture phenomena to the detriments of conformist nationalism. Sarcastic, biting, and, at times, even heartbreaking, this new collection of essays fully captures the outspoken brilliance of Ugresic's insights into our modern world's culture and conformism, the many ways in which it is ridiculous, and how (deep, deep down) we are all true suckers for it. Dubravka Ugresic is the author of several works of fiction and several essay collections, including the NBCC award finalist, Karaoke Culture. She went into exile from Croatia after being label a "witch" for her anti-nationalistic stance during the Yugoslav war. She now resides in the Netherlands. David Williams did his doctoral research on the post-Yugoslav writings of Dubravka Ugresic and the idea of a "literature of the Eastern European ruins." He is the author ofWriting Postcommunism. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The other essays are a mixed bag: there are some very powerful, incisive pieces about writing and truth and history, including one where she looks back on the fight with Franjo Tuđman's nationalist government that led to her leaving Croatia (the newspapers called her a witch and published her phone number for the convenience of any reader who might wish to attack her personally), and there are some very offbeat glimpses into odd corners of culture, but there are also quite a few very standard newspaper-column pieces about young men in headphones not offering her their seats on the tram — sharp and funny and well-written, but well past their shelf life by the time they appear in a book.
An excellent book, with some very interesting things in it, but that could perhaps have done with some slightly more ruthless editing. (