Bibliograph

Fox, Dubravka Ugresic ; translated from the Croatian by Ellen Elias-Bursać and David Williams

Type

Label

Fox, Dubravka Ugresic ; translated from the Croatian by Ellen Elias-Bursać and David Williams

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Fox

Oclc number

1006315744

Responsibility statement

Dubravka Ugresic ; translated from the Croatian by Ellen Elias-Bursać and David Williams

Summary

"With characteristic wit and narrative force, 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, notions of betrayal, and the randomness of human lives and biographies. Using the duplicitous and shape-shifting fox of Eastern folklore as a motif, Ugresic constructs a novel that reinvents itself over and over, blending nuggets of literary trivia (like how Nabokov named the Neonympha Dorothea Dorothea butterfly after the woman who drove him cross country), with the timeless story of a woman trying to escape her hometown and find love to magical effect. Propelled by literary footnotes and "minor" characters, Fox is vintage Ugresic, recovering the voices of those on the margins with a verve that's impassioned, learned, and hilarious."--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

A story about how stories come to be written -- A balancing art -- The devil's garden -- The Theocritus adventure -- Little miss footnote -- The fox's widow

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