Debesų Lietuva. Marius Ivaškevičius – mitų perkūrėjas
Lithuania the nebulous. Marius Ivaskevicius – Recreator of Myths

Summary/Abstract: The prose writer and playwright Marius Ivaškevičius (born in 1973) represents the generation of young Lithuanian writers. He restored the theme of Lithuania in the works of the writers in their thirties; he took a fresh look at the socio-cultural symbols of the nation’s history. Ivaškevičius is the author of seven books: three novels, five plays, a collection of short stories and a screenplay. All of his books are significantly different because each one of them is full of innovations while the language is treated as the stage. This is especially evident in the plays of a new type (there is virtually nothing happening in the plays all action being moved from the surface level into the linguistic one). The writer has a unique artistic program marked by [...]

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