Momentinė sovietinio literatūros lauko nuotrauka pagal laiškus Eduardui Mieželaičiui: XX a. 7-asis dešimtmetis
A Snapshot of the Soviet Literary Field in the Letters to Eduardas Mieželaitis of the 1960s

Summary/Abstract: Based on the letters of writers of the Soviet period to Eduardas Mieželaitis stored in the Archiveof Lithuanian Literature and Art, the paper reconstructs the field of Lithuanian literature of the1960s: the position of hierarchically-oriented groupings, struggles, tensions, and private attitudes.The author of the article distinguishes between central and marginal groups of writers arguingthat at that time, the structure of the Soviet literary field was formed by the relations betweenthe traditionalists, or the so-called ‘senators’ (Juozas Baltušis, Teofilis Tilvytis, and others) andthe modernists, or ‘innovators’ (Mieželaitis, Justinas Marcinkevičius, Algimantas Baltakis, andothers). On the margins of the literary field, there were the ‘ideologically unreliable’ writers ofthe older generation, repressed by the Soviet authorities (Valys Drazdauskas, Jonas Graičiūnas,Kazys Jankauskas, Viktoras Katilius, Antanas Miškinis, and others) and the ‘outsiders’ whoaccepted their marginal position (Antanas Pakalnis, Kazys Marukas, and Kostas Kubilinskas).The letters of differently positioned writers to Mieželaitis show how the structure of theliterary field was perceived by its participants, what type of tactic was adopted, and what meanswere used to dominate or at least to survive in the field.

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