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Presented By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Fox by Dubravka Ugresic

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Fox is the story of literary footnotes and “minor” characters―unnoticed people propelled into timelessness through the biographies and novels of others. With Ugresic’s characteristic wit, Fox takes us from Russia to Japan, through Balkan minefields and American road trips, and from the 1920s to the present, as it explores the power of storytelling and literary invention, betrayal, and the randomness of human lives.

Dubravka Ugrešić is one of Europe’s most distinctive novelists and essayists. From her early postmodernist excursions, to her elegiac reckonings in fiction and essay with the disintegration of her Yugoslav homeland and the fall of the Berlin Wall, to her more recent writings on popular and literary culture, Ugrešić’s work is marked by a combination of irony, polemic, and compassion. Following degrees in Comparative and Russian Literature, Ugrešić worked for many years at the University of Zagreb’s Institute for Theory of Literature. When war broke out in Yugoslavia in 1991, Ugrešić took a firm anti-war stance, critically dissecting retrograde Croatian and Serbian nationalism. Subjected to prolonged media harassment, she left Croatia in 1993. Her books have been translated into over twenty languages. She is the winner of several major literary prizes, including the Austrian State Prize for European Literature 1998; the Jean Améry Essay Prize for her essayistic work as a whole, 2012; and the Vilenica Prize and Neustadt International Prize for Literature, 2016.
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