Baba Yaga Laid an Egg
『Baba Yaga Laid an Egg』は、Dubravka Ugresicによる作品。人物の選択と時代の空気を物語の推進力にし、読後に鮮やかな余韻を残す小説。
作品情報
『Baba Yaga Laid an Egg』は、言葉の密度と題材の力で読者を作品世界へ導く。
『Baba Yaga Laid an Egg』は、Dubravka Ugresicの関心が凝縮された作品として読める。人物の選択と時代の空気を物語の推進力にし、読後に鮮やかな余韻を残す小説。
レビュー要約
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題材への向き合い方と文章の手触りを評価する声があり、作品の余韻や構成に注目されている。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Grove Pr
- 発売日
- 2011-01-11
- ページ数
- 336ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 12.7 x 2.5 x 19.3 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780802145208
- ISBN-10
- 0802145205
- カテゴリ
- 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.
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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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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).
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