Det här är ett nummer som säger att fragmenten och skissen ibland är en mer adekvat bärare av de erfarenheter och kunskaper som ska skildras än den helgjutna formen. Dubravka Ugre?ic´ uppfann inte fragmentet, men hon har i sina böcker visat hur det fungerar som exilens formspråk. »För fö[...]

The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by the renowned Yugoslavian writer Dubravka Ugresic begins in the Berlin Zoo, with the contents of Roland the Walrus's stomach displayed beside his pool (Roland died in August, 1961). These objects a cigarette lighter, lollipop sticks, a beer-bottle opener, etc.[...]

Tanja Lucic teaches at the University of Amsterdam and lives on the edge of the city's red light district. She and her pupils, fleeing the violent break-up of their homeland Yugoslavia, have found temporary refuge in the Department of Slavonic Languages. Desperate to make ends meet, many of the stud[...]