Logograph of animals in space Albert II, the rhesus monkey died. Three mice died. Fourteen mice aboard the rocket Jupiter also died. The fruit flies survived. The monkey Gordo died. The monkey Yorick came back. The monkeys Able and Baker returned, but died under surgery. Two dogs and the rabbit Marfusa returned. The dogs Tsygan
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Q: How do you define the notion of revolt? Revolt is pushing forward, running from the comfort zone, and constant self-questioning as to where everything is to move next. It is also self-sacrifice in making a new step forward because it is not clear what awaits the genre you represent. Revolt, then, is the front
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Spring such an intense thaw waters with such deep teeth they even gnawed through graves and having palms so strong they lifted coffins out of the earth and crushed them releasing the recently buried into the city’s rivers dozens of calm, majestic corpses began to swim through the streams like gondolas turning into side-streets
The drop of blood on the book cover is so realistic that it makes you want to wipe it off with your wet finger. It has fallen so dramatically among the pinholes drawn there that you want either to shake with uneasiness or smile with cynicism. This drop is so elemental—life and death in one—that
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STRIPED Last autumn my husband and I finally decided to buy some furniture, new armchairs to replace our old ones which were about twenty years old. It was only furniture … We left home in a peaceful state, but we became angry with each other after the second set of furniture at Furniture Heaven. It
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It is often said—and it is, of course, true—that not only do literary lists and various votes for books liven up the circulation of the literary field (the reactions, the despair, and the joy of writers and readers, the nerves and the illusionary feeling of involvement in matters) and shape readers’ tastes and the trajectories of
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Alfonsas Andriuškevičius is a versatile personality, an intellectual of the highest caliber, and a cultural figure, and how he is referred to depends on who is writing, thinking, or speaking about him. To an artist or an art historian, Andriušis, as he is called, is primarily the art critic who has shaped an entire school
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The trends of today’s literary field in Lithuania cannot be discussed without taking several important aspects into account. First of all, the re-establishment of independence in 1990 and the socio-cultural changes caused by it. The most crucial of these was the possibility of alternative voices, narratives, styles, and personal approaches. During the years of the
Danutė Kalinauskaitė is one of the most interesting contemporary Lithuanian prose writers. The author of three books, she combines the features of essay writing and the Lithuanian school of the short story and is recognized by her original style. Although her latest book Skersvėjų namai (The Home of Droughts, 2015) consists of nine different short stories, the
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At the Vilnius Book Fair launch event of Sigitas Parulskis’s latest book, Nutylėtų lelijų miestas (The Town of Unspoken Lilies), the literary scholar Jūratė Čerškutė said, “Sigitas Parulskis no longer needs to be introduced.” “But why?” the ironic author was quick to interrupt. “No one ever introduces me anymore. I would quite enjoy hearing a list of
