Museo de la Rendicion Incondicional, El: 244 (Impedimenta) - Softcover

Ugresic, Dubravka

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8418668407 ISBN 13: 9788418668401

Publisher: Batiscafo, 2022

Synopsis

The Museum of Unconditional Surrender―by the renowned Yugoslavian writer Dubravka Ugresic―begins in the Berlin Zoo, with the contents of Roland the Walrus's stomach displayed beside his pool (Roland died in August, 1961). These objects―a cigarette lighter, lollipop sticks, a beer-bottle opener, etc.―like the fictional pieces of the novel itself, are seemingly random at first, but eventually coalesce, meaningfully and poetically. Written in a variety of literary forms, The Museum of Unconditional Surrender captures the shattered world of a life in exile. Some chapters re-create the daily journal of the narrator's lonely and alienated mother, who shops at the improvised flea-markets in town and longs for her children; another is a dream-like narrative in which a circle of women friends are visited by an angel. There are reflections and accounts of the Holocaust and the Yugoslav Civil War, portraits of European artists, a recipe for Caraway Soup, a moving story of a romantic encounter the narrator has in Lisbon, descriptions of family photographs, and memories of the small town in which Ugresic was raised.

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About the Author

Se graduó en Literatura Comparada y Literatura Rusa. Tras estallar la guerra de los Balcanes, se posicionó en contra del conflicto, por lo que tuvo que exiliarse en 1993. Desde entonces ha enseñado en numerosas universidades de Europa y América, como Harvard, Columbia y la Free University de Berlín. Entre sus obras, que han sido traducidas a numerosos idiomas, destacan El Museo de la Rendición Incondicional (1996), Baba Yagá puso un huevo (2008), Zorro (2017) y La edad de la piel (2019); la colección de ensayos Ficcionario americano (1993) y el ensayo Karaoke Culture (2010), que quedó finalista del National Book Critics Circle Award. Ha recibido el Premio Europeo de Ensayo Charles Veillon y el Premio Austríaco de Literatura Europea, galardón que han distinguido a otros autores como Stanislaw Lem, Marguerite Duras o Mircea Cărtărescu. En 2009 fue finalista del Premio Man Booker a toda una trayectoria literaria. Actualmente reside en Ámsterdam.

Nació en 1949 en Kutina, un pueblo cercano a Zagreb.

Edition details

• Publisher: Batiscafo
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN 10: 8418668407
• ISBN 13: 9788418668401
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464