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Games with Greta: And Other Stories
Games with Greta: And Other Stories | Suzana Tratnik
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The protagonists of Suzana Tratnik s short stories in Games with Greta all share a sense of isolation on society s margins. Whether non-participants in the mainstream, rebels against it, or its occasional victims, they re well practiced at recognizing the herd instinct in action. From the six-year-old girl who discovers transgressive new games to play with her glamorous cousin from England; to a decidedly unusual schoolchild inventing a novel way of getting back at playground bullies; to young women who find their love interests drifting away, seduced by conventional notions of popularity and success; to a narrator who suddenly finds herself on no ordinary train trip through the heart of Slovenia these are characters and stories that deftly and sardonically underscore the phantom nature of normalcy itself and the risks of its tyranny for dissenters and conformists alike."
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It's a nonfiction work that deals with the interpretation of the so-called women's writing, lesbian literature and what it is. Author explain some concepts (on examples from literary) as anti-lesbian literature, the distinction between lesbian novels and lesbian text, as well as the vocabulary that was used to describe same-sex relationships.
Translated title: A Lesbian Story - Literary Construction of Sexuality

Simona The second part of the book is detailed interpretation of the work Strast (Passion), Serbian's author David Pijade. 7y
Simona In the tag is the book by the same author (short stories collection). 7y
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On the page 24 author provides historical interpretation of the phrase lesbian desires and how was such a relationship described in the literature prior to the 19th century.

In the tag is the book by the same author, but accessible in English (collection of short stories).

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