‘Marshlands’ resonated with my newly awakened aesthetic receptiveness for the minor, the fringe, the anticanonic, the outsider, and the subversive.

Dubravka Ugresic on the myth of hard work.

At the reception desk I filled in all the necessary details and got the key. Before I headed off to my room the receptionist asked: “Would you like to open a hotel account?” “What’s that?” “It means that you don’t have to pay for e…