Muzzle for Witches

Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for LiteratureAs with the rest of her literary career, Dubravka Ugresic's final work, A Muzzle for Witches, is uncategorizable. On its surface, the book is an conversation with the literary critic Merima Omeragi, 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 interview: It's a roadmap of the literary world, exploring the past century and all of its violence and turmoilespecially in Yugoslavia, Ugresic's birth countryand providing a direction for the future of feminist writing.One of the greatest thinkers of the past hundred years, Ugresic was one-of-a-kind, who novels and literary essays pushed the bounds of form and content, and A Muzzle for Witches offers the chance to see her at her most raw, and most playful.