Essays How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed have been recommended by the history scholar Sarah B. Snyder at the Shephed book platform. See the…
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This essay collection draws back the Iron Curtain for a glimpse at the lives of Eastern European women under Communist regimes. Provocative, often witty, and always intensely personal, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed cracks open a paradoxical world that through its rejection of capitalism and commoditization ends up fetishizing both.
Slavenka Drakulić was a guest at Remembering Yugoslavia, “the show exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists”, hosted by Peter Korchnak. They…
Quillette, an online magazine, has just published an interview with Slavenka Drakulić by Robin Ashenden. Read it on the link or open PDF.
Slavenka Drakulić gave an interview to the Portugese newspaper Global. She talked to the journalist José Fialho Gouveia about her new book of essays published…
In The Guardian, Adrian Chiles writes about zero-waste in socialism: “As the Croatian writer Slavenka Drakulić points out in her masterpiece, How We Survived Communism…
Essays about everyday life in communism, first published in London by Hutchinson in 1992, have been translated to Ukrainian language. The book, entitled, Як ми…
“Back in the early nineties, in her book ‘How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed’, the Croatian writer Slavenka Drakulić described laughter as the ultimate…
Rick Steves’ tourist guide to Europe recommends travellers to read books from the country of their travel. The choosen books from Croatia, among others for…
Slavenka Drakulic’s essays Balkan Express were made into a theatre play named by the German translation of the book, Sterben in Kroatien. Director of the play is Nada…
Slavenka Drakulić just got a link on an interview on Charlie Rose Show from April 15th 1992. She is talking about her book How we…