by Dubravka Ugresic · IMPEDIMENTA EDITORIAL S.L · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788417553395
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Baba Yaga is a dark and solitary creature, a witch who kidnaps children and lives in the forest, in a house supported by chicken legs. But she also travels through stories, and in each one she takes on a new form: a writer who returns to her mother's native Bulgaria, who, tormented by old age, asks her to visit the places she will no longer be able to return to; a trio of mysterious old women who stay for a few days in a spa specializing in longevity treatments; and a folklorist who tirelessly investigates the traditional figure of the witch. Old women, wives, mothers, daughters, lovers. All of them converge in Baba Yaga. Astride autobiography, essay and supernatural story, her story becomes that of Medusa, Medea and so many other cursed figures, drawing an exciting triptych about how women appear and disappear from collective memory. A masterful tale of tales that, full of wit and insight, puts the well-known figure of the perverse old woman in the spotlight. A fascinating journey in which Baba Yaga, adopting numerous disguises, invites us to explore the world of myths and reflect on identity, female stereotypes and the power of fables.
Dubravka Ugrešić was a Yugoslav-Croatian and Dutch writer. A graduate of University of Zagreb, she was based in Amsterdam from 1996 and continued to identify as a Yugoslav writer.
