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2017 Lithuanian comic books: understanding and empathy

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Graphic novels, colloquially known as comics, occupy a strange place in Lithuanian literature: they make their way in with difficulty (despite comic books of varied quality from Sin City to Maus to numerous examples of manga—all popular within the Lithuanian market), are created in small numbers, and yet those that are written generate interest. Miglė Anušauskaitė’s and Gerda Jord’s 10

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What impression could possibly have been made?

Reflections on Belonging /

“What impression could have possibly been made by just a pair of shoes and a pipe?” What? “Lithuania had terrible luck because the band’s instruments and traditional costumes were lost on the way.” What—a naked pipe player represented Lithuania at an international exhibition? No, not naked, just not wearing the traditional costume, therefore failing to

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Rimvydas Stankevičius

Poetry /

blowing in, blowing away I have long guessed what the wind really is –     but kept quiet – fearing the madhouse You close your eyes, and all The books of the world run across your face Like the lights of a passing car. Even those that weren’t saved, that became ashes, Even mine

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Poetry from a state of limbo

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In the pre-medieval Christian tradition, it was typical to believe that awaiting humans after death were not only Hell, Paradise or Purgatory but also the fourth after-life dimension, Limbo, where souls travelled immediately after their earthly existence came to an end. Only later, God permitting, did they traverse to the place they deserved to be

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Jaroslavas Melnikas

Fiction /

HEALTH CARE CENTRE /I/ Unwilling to lose his orientation, Gabr closed his eyes tight and moved in response to the acoustic sensors of the centre. All his life, until the horrific event that had befallen him, his orientation in ordinary space had been good. Ordinary space consisted of turns of allowed complexity: just like his

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Post-Colonial, Post-Identity, Post-Home: Reflections on a Writer’s Belonging

Reflections on Belonging /

Some years ago, in a craft of writing class focused on the work of Toni Morrison, taught by Tayari Jones, we were discussing that prominent academic theme: post-colonialism. I raised the issue of whether Lithuania and other Eastern Bloc countries were post-colonial. It seemed to me that they were. The Soviet Union had forcibly integrated

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Rimas Uzgiris

Poetry /

New Worlds The Red Army arrived in heavy armor, civilizing adjacent lands with factories and machines that sprouted like mushrooms in wet woods. Their tongue took root and rang in a new world. Chingachcook and Uncas withdrew to the mytho-poetical heart of the swamp. Their corner of earth, small as a mouse, had suffered more

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Phenomena that we do not always want to look at

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Liutauras Degėsys (born 1953) is a particular case within the Lithuanian cultural scene. Therefore, I have chosen not only to review the collection of essays Apatiniai gyvenimo drabužiai (Underclothes of Life) published by the Lithuanian Writers Union Publishing House earlier this year, but also to mention more of the author’s activities: these essays only summarize and outline

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