Author: Slavenka Drakulić

Cites

• George Orwell (1)
  • IN: A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism (2011) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
    FROM: 1984, (1949), Novel, UK
• Elaine Scarry (1)
  • IN: Frida's Bed (2007) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Physical pain does not simply resist language but actively destroys it, bringing about an immediate reversion to a state anterior to language, to sounds and cries a human being makes before language is learned.
    FROM: The Body in Pain, (1985), Book, US
• Frida Kahlo (1)
  • IN: Frida's Bed (2007) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Mi pintura lleva el mensaje del dolor.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Mexico
• Primo Levi (1)
  • IN: S. (1999) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: It is an intense pleasure, physical, inexpressible, to be at home, among friendly people and to have so many things to recount: but I cannot help noticing that my listeners do not follow me. In fact, they are completely indifferent: they speak confusedly of other things among themselves, as if I was not there. My sister looks at me, gets up and goes away without a word.
    FROM: If This is a Man, (1947), Book, Italy
• Eva Grlić (1)
  • IN: S. (1999) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: And quite unconsciously, perhaps precisely because of the exaggerated sense of fear, I felt at times as if this was not me at all, as if it was happening to somebody else, and everythihg I had seen was actually part of some other, unreal world.
    FROM: Memoirs, (1998), Book, Croatia
• Varlam Shalamov (1)
  • IN: S. (1999) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: A human being survives by his ability to forget.
    FROM: Kolyma Tales, (1973), Book, Russia