Museum of Mad Surrender

“The Museum of Mad Capitulation” is one of Dubravka Urešić’s best-known novels, a poignant account of emigration, in which it becomes a handy lens for looking at the history of the land. An intellectual of the highest quality, Dubravka Urešić is constructing a collage novel that begins in the Berlin Zoo and ends in a Berlin fitness center. And between these points - especially in the family photo album - revelations appear and appear, a great struggle for Fatherlandism is growing, bombs of a new war are exploding, and in the auto-broadcast the dubious voice of an old mother is heard, whose fate is gone The lyrical heroine recognizes herself more and more often. And at the same time, the reader begins to discover and guess similar parallels and plots in his biography; Rapto himself becomes the hero of a powerful autobiographical novel. Only a great deal of literature has been created for such an effect.