Dubravka Ugrešić discusses life in post-socialist Europe and Croatia with the example of a spa. The former topos of civic culture, as a kind of mark of flight into laziness beyond social life, has become in the new historical conditions the most striking metaphor for the devastation of one space and time, from Banija to New York. The essay is accompanied by a photographic series by Davor Konjikušić, who together with the writer visited several spas in Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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