The author writes in a particular manner that greatly affects the story. Most narratives have an arrangement that follows the old-fashioned criteria of “conflict, climax, resolution”, but this plot definition is more difficult to come across in The Museum of Unconditional Surrender. The random facts and situations give the reader an insight and knowledge of the events that occurred during this time. Instead of being chronological with the events that occurred, the writing style involved more of a streamline of thought rather than a structured format. This may be because of her detachment, or feelings of detachment, from the world and how she feels from being in exile. To follow the traditional format it would be more difficult to give so much information to the reader; Ugresic had a very chaotic life and events change very quickly for her, just as though the events change fast in the book. The style gives the reader a better view of how Urgesic feels internally and gives the reader more insight than that would be achieved if the piece of written differently.
I would have to agree with your insight on how this particular format gives the reader a better view of how Urgesic feels internally. As you read the writings at first they may come across as a random heap of facts, but upon closer inspection one can see that it is more of a stream of consciousness where Urgesic writes exactly what comes to mind at that moment.
ReplyDeleteI agree as well. The stream of consciousness writing does not come across as easily until you read a bit deeper, and you can see that Urgesic is writing exactly what she is thinking at the moment. It is giving the reader context of what is happening at the time of the writing.
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