Asja Bakić: Leckermäulchen
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In eleven stories, Asja Bakić writes about various more or less dystopian worlds.
For example, we encounter an artificial intelligence that specializes in the sexual satisfaction of women and is supposed to make up for the fact that there are no more men. At a youth camp, menstruation becomes the splatter element of a horror story. Gender fluidity, climate change, time travel, underworlds, aliens - the author's ingenuity is as boundless as her love of all varieties of the absurd.
As in "Mars", Asja Bakić's stories focus on women who are fighting for their lives, searching for their own significance in the world or relentlessly living out their desires. From a consistently feminist and socially critical perspective, Asja Bakić mixes genres such as weird fiction, speculative fiction, horror and eroticism in her texts and takes the reader into the past, the future or a parallel world.
"Each of the eleven stories is a feminist stroke of genius on the male-dominated world. [...] Alida Bremer has translated the eleven stories impressively. Whether nymph singing, avatar sex or state-controlled family planning - Bakić's queer-feminist stories are fantastically dark visions that are only millimeters away from neoliberal reality." - Thomas Hummitzsch | Rolling Stone March 2025
ASJA BAKIĆ, born in 1982, is a Bosnian-Croatian author and cultural critic. She has published a volume of poetry entitled "It can be a cactus as long as it stings" (2009) and two collections of short stories, "Mars" (2015) and "Sweetlust" (2020). Her fourth book "Komm, ich sitze auf deinem Gesicht" (2020) is a collection of essays on pop culture. Bakić was selected as one of the New Voices from Europe 2017 by Literary Europe Live. She lives in Zagreb.
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