Original edition:
Penguin, New York, 2011
Called “a perceptive and amusing social critic, with a wonderful eye for detail” by The Washington Post, Slavenka Drakulić has emerged as one of the most popular and respected critics of Communism to come out of the former Eastern Bloc. In A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism, she offers an eight-part exploration of Communism by way of an unusual cast of animal narrators, each from a different country, who reflect on the fall of Communism. Together they constitute an Orwellian send-up of absurdities during the final years of European Communism that showcase this author’s tremendous talent.
Another brilliant volume from Slavenka Drakulić. This time she offers nuanced, differentiated portraits of a ‘real socialism’ all over Eastern Europe.
Beautifully render(s) the dilemma of life under Communism as a sharp instances of moral tragedy and poignant examples of the limits of self-knowledge. Literature here is an aide-mémoire, not just of historical experience, but of why we choose to forget.
In a series of fables set in Eastern Europe, Drakulic , a native of Croatia, explores with wit, grace and humor the collapse of communism… It’s no coincidence that the epigraph of this fiction is from George Orwell, for Drakulic is similarly aware of moral failure and political excess.
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VIZITË ME CICERON në MUZEUM e KOMUNIZMIT
ISHM, Tirana
BASNE O KOMUNIZMU
Rende, Beograd
A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism – Fables from a Mouse, a Parrot, a Bear, a Cat, a Mole, a Pig, a Dog & a Raven
Penguin, New York
KATT I WARSZAWA
Natur och kultur, Stockholm
LA GATTA DI VARSAVIA
B.C.Dalai editore, Roma
BASNI ZA KOMUNIZMA
Žanet 45, Bulgaria
MYŠ V MUZEU KOMUNIZMU
Aspekt, Bratislava
KATT I WARSZAWA
Natur och kultur, Stockholm
Basne o komunizmu
Profil, Zagreb
Essays & Reviews About Book
Basne o komunizmu
Profil, Zagreb, 2009
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- Hrgović, Maja (2009). Nismo spremni glasati za suštinske promjene. Interview, November NOVI LIST, December 12, p. 15
Katt i Warszawa
Natur och kultur, Stockholm, 2009
- Lundén, Ulf (2009). I fablernas värld. Review, Available at: dalademokraten.se
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Myš v múzeu komunizmu a iné životy pod psa
Aspekt, Bratislava, 2009
- Kulihová, Alica (2010). Bájky o komunizme nie sú žiadne bájky. KNIŽNÁ REVUE, January 19, p. 9
A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism – Fables from a mouse, a parrot, a bear, a cat, a mole, a pig, a dog & a raven
Penguin, New York, 2011
- Morton, Elise (2017). Summer Reading List: These are the New East books you need to take on holiday this year. THE CALVERT JOURNAL, June 20. Available at: https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/8458/summer-reading-list-new-east-books-holiday
- Sabljić, Jakov and Varga Osvald, Tina (2013). Genre differentiation in A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism by Slavenka Drakulić. JOURNAL OF EDUCATION, CULTURE AND SOCIETY No. 1, pp. 243-256.
- Snyder, Timothy (2011). Animal nature. Review, THE NEW REPUBLIC, March 3. Available at: http://www.tnr.com/book/review/museum-communism-slavenka-drakulic
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- Belsky, Drew (2011). A guided tour through the museum of communism. Review, AMERICAN THINKER, February 5. Available at: http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/02/guided_tour_through_the_museum.html