Europe in Sepia

Dubravka Ugresic, Ugresic, Dubravka

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Open Letter
18 February 2014

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary essays

""Ugresic is sharp, funny and unafraid. . . . Orwell would approve.""-Times Literary Supplement

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 flneur, 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.

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 of Writing Postcommunism.

By: Dubravka Ugresic
Imprint: Open Letter
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 336g
ISBN: 9781934824894
ISBN 10: 1934824895
Pages: 242
Publication Date: 18 February 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 of Writing Postcommunism.

Reviews for Europe in Sepia

Ugresic never commits a sloppy thought or a turgid sentence. Under her gaze, the tiredest topics of the tired continent (migration, multiculturalism, new Europe ) spring to life. Â The Independent (UK) Dubravka Ugresic is the philosopher of evil and exile, and the story-teller of many shattered lives the wars in the former Yugoslavia produced. Â Charles Simic