Barbora R. where to begin? well, I work, thank God, still working, these days, you know, no, it’s nothing special, and the money, well, you can live – it’s not minimum wage yes, I divorced my husband a long time ago, how many husbands now? I don’t know, I don’t count, but, to be frank, […]
Writing, in its noblest function, is the attempt to unerase, to unearth, to find the primitive picture again, ours, the one that frightens us. —Hélène Cixous Sometime I would like to write a book (I have written a book) but here I begin by telling a story. There is not enough time or space
Genealogy My name is not my own. It was a mistranslation. It was a word torn from a forbidden holy book, its pages blurred and swollen by another century’s rain. It was a patch sewn on a uniform. It was the name of a city on a map that was never drawn. It was a
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Preparing for The Next Life Circumambulating the stupa in Thimphu, Elderly Bhutanese women, Earnestly walk clockwise, Twirling their prayer wheels, chanting, Preparing themselves for life’s eternal journey. They all wear purple— Purple jackets, sweaters, blouses, shawls, Long purple kiras. All my life I’ve loved the color purple— I’ve worn purple coats, purple sweaters, purple dresses. I’ve
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Writer, poet, and translator Vidas Morkūnas could be presented as an author who, on the one hand, is somewhat distant from the Lithuanian literary center (at least in terms of publicity), and on the other, as someone who significantly expands and enlivens the literary field with his uniqueness and individuality. His ability to construct texts,
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Now for the sake of caution, I must warn the dear reader not to fall for this particular ruse, and that the persuasively written footnotes are part of the act as well. Vytautas Ališauskas’s recent collection of poems – Jono Naujoko eilės (“John Freshman’s Verses”) presents us with layers of artificial authorship: the author operates
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the unarmed We’ve been hanging around for a good three hours on the crumbled supermarket loading dock dotted with old stains. Nearby, beyond the dusty shrubs, the town sweltered in the summer forenoon heat. When the determination of our trio to load whatever needs to be loaded was finally dying out, when we were running
In Lithuania, literature engaged with social empathy appeared about a century ago when short stories and novelettes by Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė and Jonas Biliūnas, which have become classics, were written and published. The short story “Offering to God” by Petkevičaitė-Bitė is today known to every school-age child in Lithuania because it is being analysed in schools
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