Am I a Redundant Human Being? Countries now excelling in their fields

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

" —The Massachusetts Review

and a triadic conclu- sion comprising a description of the Sheridan Libraries Barth Collection

Subtitled "a romance

[croatia] MAJA HRGOVIĆ

Am I a Redundant Human Being? Countries now excelling in their fieldsFor 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"