Doppelgänger - Paperback

by Dasa Drndic (Author)

Doppelgänger consists of two stories that skillfully revisit the question of "doubles" (famously explored by Stevenson, Dostoyevsky and others), and how an individual is perpetually caught between their own beliefs and those imposed on them by society. 'Arthur and Isabella' is a story of the relationship between two elderly people who meet on New Year's Eve - a romantic encounter which turns into a grotesque portrayal of the loneliness of old age. The second story 'Pupi' - a strange mirror of the first - centres on the life of a man who ends up on the streets and associates only with street-sellers the rhinoceroses in the zoo. Together these tales crate the highly original atmosphere that Drndic is famous for in all her works.

Author Biography

Dasa Drndicis a distinguished Croatian novelist, playwright, and literary critic. She obtained a Master's degree in Theatre and Communications from Southern Illinois University with the aid of a Fulbright scholarship. She is the author of 13 novels and was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013 and the EBRD Literature Prize 2018. S. D. Curtis has translated a number of short works into English from Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbia. Among Celia Hawkesworth's translations are two works by Dubravka Ugresic; The Museum of Unconditional Surrender, short-listed for the Weidenfeld Prize for Literary Translation; and The Culture of Lies, winner of the Heldt Prize for Translation.