Am I a Redundant Human Being? Countries complete this fascinating and illuminating

complete this fascinating and illuminating portrait

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

SERHIY ZHADAN

Without Fear of Change

Am I a Redundant Human Being? Countries complete this fascinating and illuminatingFor 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"