ВИЛЬНЮС И КАУНАС В ТВОРЧЕСТВЕ ЕФРАИМА СЕВЕЛЫ
VILNIUS AND KAUNAS IN EFRAIM SEVELA’S WORKS OF LITERATURE

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to analyse the pictures of Vilnius and Kaunas – two towns of Lithuania unique in their historical, geographical, architectural, national and cultural parameters – being part of Efraim Sevela’s (1928) biography and literary works written during his exile. Emotionally coloured and picturesque descriptions of Vilnius and Kaunas form inseparable aspects of the varied, frequently dramatic, historical and ethnographic history of Lithuania in his works such as Mama (Mама, a filmscript published in Jesuralem in 1982) and a film based on it, A Yiddish-Speaking Parrot (‘Попугай, говоряший на идиш’, 1993) made in the 1990s, a collection of stories Marble Stairs (‘Мраморные ступени ’, 1974) and novels Sell your Mother (‘Продай твою мать ’, 1982) and Toyota-Corolla (‘Тойота Королла ’, 1984). These works by Sevela, especially those containing historical and geographical descriptions of Vilnius, can be treated as little-known but integral part of the Vilnius text (on the analogy of the Petersburg text) in Russian literature.

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