Miljenko Jergovic's art of memory: Lying, imagining, and forgetting in 'Mama Leone', and 'Historijs']jska Citanka'

Miljenko Jergovic is one of the contemporary writers from the former Yugoslavia who has devoted a large part of his recent work to the problem of memory and forgetting in a radically changed and changing world. This article examines how the processes of trauma, fantasy, and remembering have been inscribed in two of his works, Mama Leone and Historijska citanka, and how the combination of these texts' narrative playfulness and their desire for memory creates a memory text that produces a highly ambiguous access to the past.