On Phenomena III I remember watching a documentary once about soldiers returning home, it seems, from Iraq or some other unfriendly place: moving scenes, of course – crying daughters women, sons, brothers, all crying, falling into embraces, around the neck, at the feet of this suddenly shy bull who spent years killing people and now
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Just recently, contemplating the newest Lithuanian poetry, I thought of how it accustoms us, persistently, to remember imagination. This means that for a while, poems were dominated by the challenges of life and recurrent descriptions of marginal experiences, which were interpreted by the means of aesthetization and creation of an alternative worldview for them. In
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Prose writer Undinė Radzevičiūtė’s debut in the literary field was marked by her novel Strekaza (2003). An unconventional author incomparable to other Lithuanian writers, she instantly received glowing reviews by critics and a wide readership. Her novel Žuvys ir drakonai (Fishes and Dragons) was awarded the European Union Prize for Literature in 2015. Her fifth book, Kraujas mėlynas (Blue Blood), was
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The Central Market A: How long have you been working here? B: Five years. C: What do you mean, five years? Eight, at least! A: So, how long is it then? B: All right then, eight years. C: At least eight years. I remember when we started. The place hadn’t yet been overrun by Chinese.
Jonas Žakaitis is a curator of conceptual and interdisciplinary art exhibitions. His first book, The 90s, is, to some extent, an interdisciplinary phenomenon. Its concept, a fundamental element of contemporary exhibitions, is its structure. The concept of an exhibition—the idea presented in its title and description—provides meaning to separate pieces; outside of the context of
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Following the publication of Antanas Škėma’s Balta drobulė (The White Shroud) in Germany and high praise from publications like Spiegel magazine, an English translation of the novel, by Karla Gruodis, is soon to be published by Vagabond Voices (Glasgow). Born in 1910 in Łódź, Poland, Antanas Škėma is seen by Lithuanians as something between a teen idol (the decadently
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During the first Bolshevik occupation Antanas Garšva wasn’t able to publish his poems or articles in any of the Soviet newspapers or magazines. His work was called reactionary and formalist. Garšva and his father lived in the summer cottage at Aukštoji Panemune. It was a small cottage. Four rooms, a kitchen, a glassed-in porch. A
Undinė Radzevičiūtė made her literary debut in 2003 with the small 88-page novel Strekaza. Her appearance in the literary field was open, powerful, and different: she consciously dissociated herself from the Lithuanian literary field and her sincere confession was placed on the back cover of the book: “I have never loved the L. [Lithuanian – J.Č.]
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WILL THERE BE AN EXECUTION? The grey sky hung lower than usual. Pieces of ice the size of chicken eggs spilled out when it opened up, and everyone had to take cover to avoid being killed. But today the despicable cousin of the Master of the Livonian Order was to be beheaded! And all the
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