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  Lend Me Your Character (Paperback) By (author) Dubravka Ugresic, Translated by Celia Hawkesworth, Translated by Michael Henry Heim, Translated by Damion Searles

  

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  Short Description for Lend Me Your Character"Splendidly ambitious . . . A brilliant, enthralling spread of story-telling and high-velocity reflections. In her indignation and in her sorrow Ugresic speaks for many people, many experiences. She is a writer to follow. A writer to be cherished." Susan Sontag
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  • Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
  • Published: 01 June 2005
  • Format: Paperback 246 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Short Stories
  • ISBN 13: 9781564783752 ISBN 10: 1564783758
  • Sales rank: 699,974

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Full description for Lend Me Your Character

• 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.