Rūstusis Dievas: religinė vaizdinija Sauliaus Tomo Kondroto romanuose
The Wrathful God: Religious Imagery in the Novels of Saulius Tomas Kondrotas

Summary/Abstract: In this essay I investigate the religious imagery of the Lithuanian prose writer Saulius Tomas Kondrotas (b. 1953). The traditional image of God in the canon of Lithuanian literature is Dievulis, who is conceived as being close to man, forgiving, acting in and through nature. However in Kondrotas’ novels God is transcendent to nature, acting in the sphere of morality, unforgiving and vengeful. I aim to prove that the reasons for this transformation are, first, the disintegration of the agrarian society due to the forceful Soviet modernization, which is reflected in Kondrotas’ novels, and, second, the influence of protestant theology, which reached Kondrotas through the readings of modernist writers, primarily William Faulkner.

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