Memory, writing and narration: The flea markets of memory in Dubravka Ugrešić's The Museum of Unconditional Surrender.

The narrative of Dubravka Ugrešić's novel The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (1997) revolves around three core motifs: the problem of memory and remembering, the experience of temporality, and the notion of exile, developed in relation to the dichotomy of fact versus fiction. While most theoretical approaches to the novel focus on the motif of exile in the context of dominant ideological patterns of the new national states formed after the breakup of Yugoslavia, this paper represents a shift in interpretative focus to the problem of memory and the experience of temporality in the perspective of the dynamics of history and fiction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]