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The Culture of Lies - Paperback

by Dubravka Ugresic
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Availability:In StockContributor:Dubravka Ugresic, Celia Hawkesworth (Translator)Publish date:2024-04-16Pages:300
Language:EnglishPublisher:Open LetterISBN-13:9781948830782ISBN-10:1948830787UPC:9781948830782Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:LiterarySize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.83 inchesWeight:1.0406Product ID:SCP9MSPTSA
The Culture of Lies is one of the most intelligent and lucid accounts of an appalling episode in history. It shows us the banality and brutality of nationalism and the way that nationalistic ideology permeates every pore of life. Ugresic's acerbic and penetrating essays cover everything from politics to daily routine, from public to private life.
With a diverse and unusual perspective, she writes about memory, soap operas, the destruction of everyday life, kitsch, the conformity of intellectuals, propaganda and censorship, the strategies of human manipulation and the walls of Europe which, she argues, never really did fall.


Shot through with irony and sadness, satirical protest and bitter melancholy, The Culture of Lies is a gesture of intellectual resistance by a writer branded "a traitor" and "a witch" in Croatia.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Open LetterISBN-13:9781948830782ISBN-10:1948830787UPC:9781948830782Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:LiterarySize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.83 inchesWeight:1.0406Product ID:SCP9MSPTSA
Dubravka Ugresic is the author of six works of fiction, including The Museum of Unconditional Surrender, and six essay collections, including the NBCC award finalist, Karaoke Culture. In 2016, she was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature for her body of work. She went into exile from Croatia after being labeled a "witch" for her anti-nationalistic stance during the Yugoslav war. She lived in the Netherlands until her passing in March 2023.


Celia Hawkesworth is the translator of numerous works of Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian literature, including Dubravka Ugresic's The Culture of Lies for which she won the Heldt Prize for Translation in 1999. She also received the Best Translated Book Award for her translation of EEG by Dasa Drndic.


Publisher: Open Letter

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Dubravka Ugresic, Celia Hawkesworth (Translator)

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Dubravka Ugresic

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