PASAULIO KŪRIMAS KAI KURIŲ ŠIUOLAIKINIŲ LIETUVIŲ IR LENKŲ POETŲ KŪRYBOJE: NUO SOCREALIZMO IKI DABARTIES
CREATION OF THE WORLD IN WORKS OF CERTAIN CONTEMPORARY LITHUANIAN AND POLISH POETS: FROM SOCREALISM TILL PRESENT

Summary/Abstract: During the decades of the first independence, Lithuanian poetry has followed the European tradition of modernism.The best Lithuanian poetry represented authentic European modernism, its stylistic diversity and individualism. Nevertheless, the Soviet reality limited Lithuanian literature to a particularly hermetic world that protractedly ignored the experience of European art; it exalted socialist realism and its collectiveness, as well as impersonality. Lithuanian social-realist poetry has essentially encroached on the historical memory of town and culture as well as Christian metaphysics. Without metaphysics, contemporary Lithuanian poetry has faced the physical and utopian time line of Communism, propagated by the dogmas of socialist realism. Talented Lithuanian poets didn’t consider that such a possibility can be creative.During the Soviet era Lithuanian literature had been looking for its ontological identity in the prehistory of Baltic culture, international mythology of the earth ethos and the non-historical space of the Orient, which during the decades of the second independence were anchored already as a tradition of Lithuanian poetry.

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