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Dubravka Ugrešić : Fox & American Fictionary

Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

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The Inversion of Misogyny in Fox

I love how if we take this idea of of doing an inversion around misogyny in Fox and also this question of legacy and erasure and footnotes versus the main text. The way that you take the story of Nabokov naming a butterfly and he names one of the butterflies after a show essentially a chauffeur of his who's a woman it feels like a great active restorative justice though it is very discreetly done all of that. There are some some examples for instance there is a novel of Italian author written sometimes ago Lolita from Lolita's point of view so there are yeah but I like that because of that footnote theme which goes all through the through the Fox.

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