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"Polizzotti’s remarkable achievement is a welcome addition to this small but growing body of work on Roussel and serves as a reminder of an author and a novel too often neglected

Harris is Emeritus Professor of English at Illinois State University

The story -- a mixture of satire

extended critical study that's capable of inducing a feeling of affection in the reader towards its author

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Fragma Bildungsroman "Polizzotti’s remarkable achievement is aFragma is the debut collection of short fiction by Mojca Kumerdej, an award winning Slovenian writer. Kumerdej's style is witty, lucid, darkly funnya style that can bring us to sympathize with, even as we loathe, characters obsessed with luxury cars and jealous of their own daughters. Her stories of sadism, masochism, mutual addiction, and violence in multiple forms introduce us to an utterly unique voice, valuable because it tells English readers