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, betray...
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 Ugresic is the author of six works of fiction, including The Museum of Unconditional Surrender, and six essay collections, including the NBCC award finalist, Karaoke Culture. She went into exile from Croatia after being labeled a "witch" for her anti-nationalistic stance during the Yugoslav Wars. She now resides in the Netherlands. In 2016, she was awarded the Neustadt...
Dubravka Ugresic is the author of six works of fiction, including The Museum of Unconditional Surrender, and six essay collections, including the NBCC award finalist, Karaoke Culture. She went into exile from Croatia after being labeled a "witch" for her anti-nationalistic stance during the Yugoslav Wars. She now resides in the Netherlands. In 2016, she was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature for her body of work.
Ellen Elias-Bursać is a translator of South Slavic literature. Her accolades include the 2006 National Translation Award for her translation of David Albahari's novel Götz and Meyer. She is currently the Vice President of the American Literary Translators Association.
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, and translated Ugresic’s Europe in Sepia and Karaoke Culture.
Saturated with autobiographical memories. The elements of which remind the reader of the horrors of the war in the former Yugoslavia, which changed the destiny of thousands and destroyed thousands of ...Saturated with autobiographical memories. The elements of which remind the reader of the horrors of the war in the former Yugoslavia, which changed the destiny of thousands and destroyed thousands of people - out of greed and simplicity, “The time when all human scum rises to the surface. Whoever survives has to face the consequences of this.”(展开)
5 有用 Sound_Fury 2021-12-09 18:23:56
正如皮利尼亚克写《关于故事》,Fox中也充满真真假假的人事,使读者分不清是确有其人(事)还是按需编造。虽然有时叙述者在个人史和作家史间过于跳跃,相对于密集紧绷的文本分析,私人故事显得松散不少,但小说结构明显经过精心布局,不得不赞其精妙。Fox可能不能提供情节飨宴,但Ugrešić写个体与历史、文学与现实、编造和真相、时间与记忆,并展示了小说文本中一流的文学批评。
0 有用 salty yuzu 2023-12-22 07:01:20 法国
因为作者对排雷工作的描写,对巴尔干地区的历史萌生了兴趣。久违地感受到了阅读带来的痛苦(尤其是关于Levin扑朔迷离的人生经历,让人产生强烈的眩晕——不知是作者还是自己醉了)。几个看似毫无关联的人物让看似独立的几个章节串联了起来,尽管这种细弱的链接多少显得牵强。狐狸作为背叛、诱惑、虚实难辨的图腾被反复提起,然而也仅限于一个被作者生搬硬套、强行切题的象征而已,作为全书的“核心主题”,简直徒有虚名。
0 有用 ✨✨✨ 2023-12-25 00:01:15 天津
读完惊叹于作者的阅读量 这种人才是比较文学的天选之子啊 目前自己的阅读量还有对东欧文学知识的空白也是阅读这本书痛苦的原因 但是并不妨碍这是一本好书 思维跟随着坐着一直在自己的回忆与作家史(野史?有一部分)之间毫无意识的游走
0 有用 haowen 2024-01-06 02:54:21 上海
Saturated with autobiographical memories. The elements of which remind the reader of the horrors of the war in the former Yugoslavia, which changed the destiny of thousands and destroyed thousands of ... Saturated with autobiographical memories. The elements of which remind the reader of the horrors of the war in the former Yugoslavia, which changed the destiny of thousands and destroyed thousands of people - out of greed and simplicity, “The time when all human scum rises to the surface. Whoever survives has to face the consequences of this.” (展开)
0 有用 souv 2024-12-14 19:09:54 江苏
从欧洲到美洲到亚洲 陆陆续续看完了这本