Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov review - the dangers of dwelling in the past

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : From the vantage point of 2022, it's clear that this wasn't just true of communism, and that the joke, if we can still bear to laugh at it, is also on us.
51% : From communism to the Brexit referendum and conflict in Europe, this funny yet frightening Bulgarian novel explores the weaponisation of nostalgiaLife behind the iron curtain was an education in a certain kind of humour: dark, unsentimental and absurd.
51% : His narrator bears close relation to Gospodinov himself: a Bulgarian, born in 1968, for whom the end of communism remains, as it remains in a ghostly way in this novel, a meeting point of past and present.
50% : My favourite joke from my time in 1980s Romania was: "Under communism, the future is always certain; it's the past that keeps changing."

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