Am I a Redundant Human Being? Countries SERHIY ZHADAN

SERHIY ZHADAN

now excelling in their fields and dictating the terms by which future American writing will be judged by the world

Subtitled "a romance

Barley Patch takes as its subject the reasons an author might abandon fiction—or so he thinks—forever

complete this fascinating and illuminating portrait

Am I a Redundant Human Being? Countries SERHIY ZHADANFor the first time in English, a contemporary and friend of Virginia Woolf and Stefan Zweig gives us the definitive portrait of a woman lost on the margins of modern life. Aloisia Schmidt is an ordinary secretary with a burning question: am I a redundant human being? She's neither pretty nor ugly (though she wishes she were hideous: at least that would be something), has no imagination, and is forced to live vicariously through "borrowed"