Description
As with the rest of her literary career, Dubravka Ugrešić's final work, A Muzzle for Witches, is uncategorizable. On its surface, the book is a conversation with the literary critic Merima Omeragić, covering topics such as "Women and the Male Perspective," "The Culture of (Self)Harm," and "The Melancholy of Vanishing."
But the book is more than a simple conversation. It's a roadmap of the literary world, exploring the past century and all of its violence and turmoil—especially in Yugoslavia, Ugrešić's birth country—and pointing the way forward for feminist writing.
One of the greatest thinkers of the past hundred years, Ugrešić was one of a kind; her novels and literary essays pushed the bounds of form and content. A Muzzle for Witches offers the chance to see her at her most raw and most playful.