Baba Yaga Laid an Egg
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg is a work by Dubravka Ugresic. A novel driven by its characters' choices and the atmosphere of its time, leaving a vivid aftertaste.
Work Information
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg draws readers into its world through concentrated language and the force of its subject.
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg can be read as a work that condenses Dubravka Ugresic's concerns. A novel driven by its characters' choices and the atmosphere of its time, leaving a vivid aftertaste.
Review Summaries
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Readers note the handling of the subject and the texture of the prose, with attention to the work's aftertaste and structure.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Grove Pr
- Published
- 2011-01-11
- Pages
- 336 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 12.7 x 2.5 x 19.3 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780802145208
- ISBN-10
- 0802145205
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Mythology & Folk Tales/Fairy Tales
According to Slavic myth, Baba Yaga is a witch who lives in a house built on chicken legs and kidnaps small children. In Baba Yaga Laid an Egg , internationally acclaimed writer Dubravka Ugresic takes the timeless legend and spins it into a fresh and distinctly modern tale of femininity, aging, identity, and love. With barbed wisdom and razor-sharp wit, Ugresic weaves together the stories of four women in contemporary Eastern Europe: a writer who grants her dying mother’s final wish by traveling to her hometown in Bulgaria, an elderly woman who wakes up every day hoping to die, a buxom blonde hospital worker who’s given up on love, and a serial widow who harbors a secret talent for writing. Through the women’s fears and desires, and their struggles against invisibility, Ugresic presents a brilliantly postmodern retelling of an ancient myth that is infused with humanity and the joy of storytelling.
Reviews
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best book I read lately !
A story deliciously funny which made me laugh out loud !
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Baba Yaga - a novel incorporating the myths of Baba Yaga
This book is fascinating. It is not hard to read, the author has a fluidity so it races along. I did not know a thing about Baba Yaga, so the last part of the book which explains who and what Baba Yaga stands for, a Croation, Serbian maybe Russian myth about someone, could be a man, but mostly a woman, an old hag, a mad woman, a witch etc, which pulls the book together very well. It certainly is unusual and entertaining. I would like to read a lot more of this author's books.
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Excellent.
Really.
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Me ha gustado
Me ha gustado
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Imaginative novel by Croatian woman novelist who knows the Slavic world
It's lively and original, it's different, there's much imagination and humour, the places are interesting to someone from the west of Europe and no doubt America too, the translation reads well. I was surprised by the move from the first part to the next part, a big change in point of view. And then the last part which i am reading now. I came to the novel via the appendix to the book 'Russian Magic Tales' whose author i looked up. On her site i read a strong invitation to read this novel. I was able to download it on Kindle and start reading. ( I enjoy both paper and kindle).
Related Literary Awards
- Otherwise Award Edition 20 (2010) ・award