by Dubravka Ugresic (Author)
The Culture of Lies 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, aggression against people's own 'brothers', 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 sarcasm and satire, The Culture of Lies , written in the tradition of Milan Kundera and Karl Kraus, is a gesture of intellectual resistance by a writer brandished 'a traitor' and 'a witch' in Croatia. This is one of the most intelligent and lucid accounts of an appalling episode in history.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 01 Jul 1999
ISBN 10: 075380736X
ISBN 13: 9780753807361
Book Overview: Winner of the Charles Veillon European Essay Prize 1996. Previous winners include Roberto Calasso, Gyorgy Konrad,and Ernst Schumpeter 'She speaks out against the political and cultural perversions of modern Croatia, offering an insight into one of the most volatile countries of the world in this particularly turbulent period' Tatler 'Impressive and deeply felt...deserve[s] a wide readership' Hugh MacPherson, Times Literary Supplement '[Dubravka Ugresic has been] holding the fort of liberal reason almost alone against a vast army of blinkered, pot-bellied, chauvinistic men, all waving checkerboard flags from the slits of their little tank-turreted minds...Brave, ironical, subtle, funny and clear-eyed' Timothy Garton-Ash, Times Literary Supplement
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