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“Black Balts” Abroad: White Racism, Homosexuality and (Non-)Tolerance in Lithuanian and Latvian Emigration Narratives

Author(s): Laura Laurušaitė / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2019

The present article will use the method of literary imagology in order to study the 21st-century Lithuanian and Latvian (e)migration literature and experiences in the context of racial, sexual, and cultural otherness. It will discusses marriage to a foreigner as something more than an official legitimation of one’s love for a person of other ethnicity, the introduction of foreignness into the world of one’s own culture, and the ideological penetration of the other into that which is inherited, ordinary and familiar. Provinciality, intolerance, and inability to admit and accept the Other or perceive oneself as a sexual Other remain an important part of Lithuanian and Latvian identity. In turn, emigrants in the host communities are a minority with counter-negative images, especially social ones.

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“Liberarsi” Dalle Proprie Radici: IL Percorso Della Giovane Elena Dell’Amica Geniale

Author(s): Dani Alva / Language(s): Italian / Issue: 29/2021

Elena Greco is one of the female characters in the quadrilogy Amica geniale quadrilogy. Her growth is closely linked and conditioned by the fate of the Neapolitan quarter, called the “rione”. This article deals with the theme of the escape from misery and oppressive patriarchal power, which suffocate and imprison especially female figures. My intention is to identify the reasons why Elena wants to escape from her nest and build her life away from all her affections. The poverty of the families in the quarter and their need for work and money prevented especially the females from continuing their studies: They did not have the privilege of the culture and the particular values it transmitted, hence, they could not know its intellectual values. She (Elena) realizes that the only solution to succeed and the only mechanism to rescu herself was her education, strict discipline and upbringing.

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“The Scar Will Always Be There”: The Post-Soviet Melancholia in Gundega Repše’s Novel Conjuring Iron

Author(s): Artis Ostups / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2020

The article discusses the cultural and narratological aspects of melancholic understanding of history in postmodern Latvian fiction. The first part of the study offers a brief overview of Latvian fiction of the 1990s and early 2000s with a special attention to the interrelated questions of history, trauma, and representation. The second part shifts from cultural contextualization to defining melancholic temporality and highlighting narrative ways of expressing it in fiction which addresses trauma, collective and individual, from a posttraumatic place in time. The third part analyzes the indirect and disjointed engagement with Soviet occupation in Gundega Repše’s novel Conjuring Iron (2011). This is done by focusing on the poetics of unnarrated as a sign of prolonged mourning and by thinking about the epistemology of a fragment.

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Śmierć Pańska i zaćmienie Słońca. Jana z Głogowa (1445–1507) rozważania o cudownym zjawisku astronomicznym

Author(s): Robert K. Zawadzki / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2018

Arranged by topics, the essay covers the early sixteenth – century Introductorium compendiosumin Tractatum sphaerae materialis Ioannis de Sacrobusto written in Latin by the Polish scholar Jan of Głogów. The essay explores diverse aspects of his deliberations about the eclipse of the sun which wassaid to happen during the time of Christ’s death. In Jan`s opinion which was based on astronomicalknowledge and ancient writers` judgments, the blocking of the light of the sun when the moon was between it and the earth, was a miraculous event which did not follow the known physical laws of nature and was therefore thought to be caused by God.

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Германн Гессе и Латвия

Author(s): Silvestras Gaižiūnas / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 94/2016

Hermann Hesse has kindred relations with Latvia. His grandmother from the father‘s side Jeanette Agnese Lass (1807–1851) was born in Courland. Interesting Hesse’s relation with father’s cousin Monica Hunnius (1858–1934), who wrote a book about writer’s grandfather Carl Hermann Hesse (1802–1896) “My Uncle Hermann. Memoirs about Old Estonia”.Hesse’s name and creation in Latvian literature appears enough early, at the beginning of XX century. At 1907 the first translation of Hesse’s text was published in Latvian language. Novel “Steppenwolf” has most interesting fate in Latvia. This novel two times was staged in Latvian scene. Hesse is related by the close typologic relations with Latvian Neo-romanticism. One of the most famous neo-romantic poets is Fricis Bārda (1880–1919) for his collection „Earth Son” (1911) as a epigraph selects Hesse‘s verse “I Love Women who Thousand Years ago...” (“Ich liebe Frauen...”). At this context it makes sense to comparison Jānis Poruks (1871–1911) story “The Pearl Fisher” (1895) and Hesse‘s novel “Peter Camenzind” (1904). In both works continue the traditions of the novel of education (Bildungsroman). Poruks and Hesse are related with the Herrnhuters‘ Culture (Moravian Church). Jānis Plaudis (1902–1957) novel “Lynx” by the genre features and the treatment of game reminds Hesse‘s novel “The Glass Bead Game”.

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Литовский Достоевский ретроспективным взглядом: к проблеме восприятия историколитературных текстов

Author(s): Margarita Varlašina / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 2/2005

The article analyzes E. Červinskienė's studio Dostoevsky, the first (1971) and second (2004) releases. A brief overview of the reception of F. Dostoevsky and his creative works in the royal and Soviet Russia, emphasizes that the main theme of his works - the problem of personal freedom vs. prison - was poorly considered that the censorship of the USSR for a few decades limited the publication and research of some of its texts. The deconstruction of the totalitarian ideological culture policy pursued by the state highlights the imprisonment of the time and the study of literature. The peculiarity of the Lithuanian book about Dostoevsky reveals in comparison with other historical texts of the Soviet period about him. The textual analysis reveals the importance of Siberian exile (katoros) - as a Russian writer and his research worker, a literary unifying columnist - for the study of the book's pathos and the interpretation of the writer's personality. The selection, composition and commentary of the material cited reveals in the book Dostoevsky, with the assertion of personal freedom and the level of delegation of the current system. It is concluded that this peculiarity of the Lithuanian literary historical text about Dostoevsky is essential in solving the problem of the genre of E. Červinskienė's own studies and allows it to be included in the literature on literary texts.

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