Dubravka Ugrešić : Fox & American Fictionary
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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The Roots of American Literature
I feel like you can maybe see the roots of your transnational literature as home in the sense that you're condemning the ways in which Yugoslavia in literature is devolving into open letters and diaries. You're also observing the way in which American literature seems to be obsessed with what you call collective autobiography another form that you are you're condemning. For the most part it feels like America is pretty unrelentingly critiqued except for New York City story to New York no in a way like I mean this is love story from the very beginning so I amYeah I'm not getting up yeah I'm still fascinated with the way that it's all about bagel Yeah I'm using a bag
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