“In just three years of war,” claims the late Dubravka Ugrešić, in The Culture of Lies, her newly reissued text on the conflict, “literature [was] destroyed.” The same fate awaited any artistic effort that didn’t flatter the nationalist mafia, and as for Ugrešić—born and raised in Zagreb—in ’93 she fled, becoming another of those she calls “Yugoslav gypsies.”
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