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Controversial Slavic author Dubravka Ugresicc shared how her experiences traveling throughout the globe has affected her writing and warned against the strict categorization of writers by their nationality in an address at the Barker Center on Friday afternoon. Despite the dreary weather, the event attracted a diverse audience of about 30, including Harvard professors of Czech and Polish Languages and Literatures, undergraduate and graduate students, and fans of Ugresic’s works from outside of the Harvard community. Ugresic, who taught briefly at Harvard in 1992, was invited as the first guest in a series of seminars hosted...
READING | Dubravka Ugresic...
Ukrainian author Dubravka Ugresic will read from and discuss her new essay compendium, Thank You for Not Reading: Essays on Literary Trivia. Her commentary on the increasingly commercial emphasis of literature as opposed to a culture of reading and writing built on the power of words and ideas is well worth the time. Free. Harvard Information Center, in the Holyoke Center...
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina—Earlier this summer I remember sitting on the number four metro in Paris; I am nearly finished reading page 87 of Dubravka Ugresic’s The Museum of Unconditional Surrender. A single word strikes my fancy: “Kinder-Eggs.” I read on and finally realize that the author is not going to explain what a kinder-egg is. I smile in my secret delight. But the secret that I share with Ugresic does not last long...
Next up in the Richmond recital series: Dubravka Tomsic...