The Sunken Cemetery
The Sunken Cemetery marks an intriguing genre shift toward horror. In this “book for readers with strong nerves,” empirical boundaries are once again expanded, and the potentials of the irrational are introduced into the narrative game. The story of Ivan Hum (who is also the narrator), returning to his hometown after thirty-six years and a served […]
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender
In her novel The Museum of Unconditional Surrender, Dubravka Ugrešić explores the issues of exile and identity. The novel is a prose mosaic composed of a series of short, essayistic episodes – a collage made up of vignettes suffused with a delicate atmosphere of melancholy, sadness, nostalgia, and pain brought about by emigration and exile, the […]