Lend Me Your Character
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From the author of Baba Yaga Laid an Egg and Thank You for Not Reading
From the story of Steffie Cvek to "The Kharms Case," the pieces in Dubravka Ugresic's collection Lend Me Your Character are always smart and endlessly entertaining. The former story paints a picture of a harassed and vulnerable typist whose life is shaped entirely by cliches. She searches endlessly for an elusive romantic love in a narrative punctuated by threadbare advice from women's magazines and constructed like a sewing pattern. The latter story is one of Ugresic's funniest and is about the strained relationship between a persistent translator and an unresponsive publisher. The stories collected in Lend Me Your Character, the novella "Steffie Cvek in the Jaws of Life," and a collection of short stories entitled "Life Is a Fairy Tale" solidify Ugresic's reputation as one of Eastern Europe's most playful and inventive writers."
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Stefica Cvek in the Jaws of Life (a little patchwork novel)
- How to Ruin Your Own Heroine
- Life Is a Fairy Tale
- A Hot Dog in a Warm Bun
- Who Am I?
- Life Is a Fairy Tale
- The Kharms Case
- The Kreutzer Sonata
- Lend Me Your Character
- Button, Button, Who's Got the Button?
- De l'horrible danger de la lecture (author's notes)
- About the Author
- Back Cover
