The Culture of Rebellion of Kaunas Literati in the Context of Bohemian Consciousness in 1919–1940 Cover Image

Maišto kultūra Kauno literatų bohemiškosios savimonės kontekste 1919–1940 m.
The Culture of Rebellion of Kaunas Literati in the Context of Bohemian Consciousness in 1919–1940

Author(s): Jovita Jankauskienė
Subject(s): History
Published by: Vytauto Didžiojo Universitetas
Keywords: bohemia; literati; rebellion; the First Republic of Lithuania; Kaunas.

Summary/Abstract: Literati’s public and private speeches revealed their attitude towards rebellion as a natural form of their community’s expression, closely related to the idea of bohemian. The main trend of rebellion converged into conflicts inside the literati community, emerging due to diverging attitudes. The conflict of generations was sharply encouraged as well, though the survey of its motive clarified that not age differences but rather the same ideology differences hide under the terms of old and young generation. The declared confrontation to political system and public authorities was mostly conveyed through public or personal criticism as the writer’s manner of expression and means of self-identification as the society outsider. Public dramatics, provocative postures, the choice of original lifestyle and the rejection of the habitual one has become a tool for a litterateur to create an image of an exclusive individual in the society and a rebel against social conventions.

  • Issue Year: 90/2013
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 59-71
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Lithuanian