- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (12 Jan 1998)
- ISBN-10: 0297841041
- ISBN-13: 978-0297841043
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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"The Culture of Lies" was written as a reaction to the collapse of the former Yugoslavia and the unholy war in Croatia and Bosnia. Urresic's ascerbic and penetrating essays cover everything from politics to daily routine, from public to private life.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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With this book of essays Dubravka Ugrasic proves herself to be on a par with Joseph Brodsky. Her insights into the complex machinations of mankind amuses and compels in equal measure, making these thoughtful and conscientious musings stunningly moving.
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If you want to have a look into the modern day mind when it is grasped in the hands of a demagogue and a political situation that is spiraling into unfathomable nationalism, this is a good book.
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The essays are fascinating. They communicate a sense of an overwhelming cultural trauma, not just because of the war itself but because of the whiplash speed of the changes as all the ex-Yugoslavs created new identities for themselves. Streets were renamed, history rewritten, the literary canon divvied up.
And it wasn't simply an assertion of a new positive identity for, for example, Croatia, it was necessarily a rejection not just of Serbia and Bosnia but of Yugoslavia. So the country where all of them had lived their whole lives, and which had been an imperfect but functional state for over 80 years, became a `prison of nations', and anyone who questioned this was suffering from the dangerously subversive `Yugo-nostalgia'.
The essays approach this central subject from various directions -- the metaphor of cleanness and cleansing, the relationship between eastern and western Europe, the kitschiness of nationalist aesthetics, pop music -- and they are all well-written, thought provoking and rather quotable.
And it wasn't simply an assertion of a new positive identity for, for example, Croatia, it was necessarily a rejection not just of Serbia and Bosnia but of Yugoslavia. So the country where all of them had lived their whole lives, and which had been an imperfect but functional state for over 80 years, became a `prison of nations', and anyone who questioned this was suffering from the dangerously subversive `Yugo-nostalgia'.
The essays approach this central subject from various directions -- the metaphor of cleanness and cleansing, the relationship between eastern and western Europe, the kitschiness of nationalist aesthetics, pop music -- and they are all well-written, thought provoking and rather quotable.
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