As If I Am Not There, Drakulic,S

Автор: Drakulic,S
Название: Cafe Europa
ISBN: 0349107297 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780349107295
Издательство: Little, Brown
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Описание: This work explores the divisions that still exist in contemporary Europe. It focuses on Eastern Europe and the attitudes and cultural identity of Eastern Europeans, a nation of people still living in the past. Budapest, Tirane, Warsaw and Zagreb are featured.

Автор: Drakulic Slavenka
Название: How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed
ISBN: 0060975407 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060975401
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 1548 р.
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This essay collection from renowned journalist and novelist Slavenka Drakulic, which quickly became a modern (and feminist) classic, draws back the Iron Curtain for a glimpse at the lives of Eastern European women under Communist regimes. Provocative, often witty, and always intensely personal, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed cracks open a paradoxical world that through its rejection of capitalism and commoditization ends up fetishizing both.

Examining the relationship between material goods and expressions of happiness and individuality in a society where even bananas were an alien luxury, Drakulic homes in on the eradication of female identity, drawing on her own experiences as well as broader cultural observations. Enforced communal housing that allowed for little privacy, the banishment of many time-saving devices, and a focus on manual labor left no room for such bourgeois affectations as cosmetics or clothes, but Drakulic's remarkable exploration of the reality behind the rhetoric reveals that women still went to desperate lengths to feel "feminine."

How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed also chronicles the lingering consequences of such regimes. The Berlin Wall may have fallen, but Drakulic's power pieces testify that ideology cannot be dismantled so quickly; a lifetime lived in fear cannot be so easily forgotten.

Автор: Drakulic,S
Название: They would never hurt a fly
ISBN: 0349117756 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780349117751
Издательство: Little, Brown
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Описание: This volume provides an accessible, involving and moving account of the Balkan war criminals.

Автор: Drakulic, Slavenka
Название: A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism
ISBN: 0143118633 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143118633
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: A wry, cutting deconstruction of the Communist empire by one of Eastern Europe's exceptional authors.

Called "a perceptive and amusing social critic, with a wonderful eye for detail" by The Washington Post, Slavenka Drakulic-a native of Croatia-has emerged as one of the most popular and respected critics of Communism to come out of the former Eastern Bloc. In A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism, she offers a eight-part exploration of Communism by way of an unusual cast of narrators, each from a different country, who reflect on the fall of Communism. Together they constitute an Orwellian send-up of absurdities during the final years of European Communism that showcase this author's tremendous talent.

Автор: Drakulic, Slavenka
Название: Frida`s Bed
ISBN: 0143114158 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143114154
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: A beautifully imagined story of the last days of Frida Kahlo s life
A few days before Frida Kahlo s death in 1954, she wrote in her diary, I hope the exit is joyful and I hope never to return. Diagnosed with polio at the age of six and plagued by illness and injury throughout her life, Kahlo s chronic pain was a recurrent theme in her extraordinary art. In "Frida s Bed," Slavenka Drakulic explores the inner life of one of the world s most influential female artists, skillfully weaving Frida s memories into descriptions of her paintings, producing a meditation on the nature of chronic pain and creativity. With an intriguing subject whose unusual life continues to fascinate, this poignant imagining of Kahlo s thoughts during her final hours by another daringly original and uncompromising creative talent will attract readers of literary fiction and art lovers alike.