Review of the Culture of Lies and The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka Ugresic

In 1993, a Danish critic reviewing Dubravka Ugrešić\u27s novel Fording the Stream of Consciousness, a clever satire of a literary conference, accused her of engaging in a crass form of literary escapism when she should have been writing about the bloody war raging at home in her native Yugoslavia. Since the novel was first published in 1988, this criticism was entirely misplaced. In fact, the war has been on her mind the entire time, as is evident from her two most recent books, The Culture of Lies (essays 1991-1998) and The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (1991-1996)