Marija Djačenko, "Time to open the windows and clear the air" 2016-08-17
I remember Marija Djačenko from a time when many knew her as the young writer who had published a collection of short stories You Agree (Sutinki, 2005) while still studying in high school. Later on Marija left for England and appeared again in the literary context after 8 years when she published a book of short stories Full of Grace (Malonės pilnoji). A new literary project initiated by Marija came to life recently: charlesmethugo.com; it has become a pretext to start a conversation about memories, Europe, books and ideas.
Like an ox’s lick 2016-08-12
Essay today is prone to ease and diffusion of genres. The narrator in G. Bleizgys book Ox (Jautis, Vilnius: Lietuvos rašytojų sąjungos leidykla, 2016.) is able to reflect on a mother's death in one paragraph and to interpret Arnas Ališauskas' poem in the other. However, such choice does not prevent the reader from following the lines of the text and draws one into poetically and sensitively reflected authentic events as well as existential ponderings about life, death and continuity.
Almost all of Alfonsas Andriuškevičius 2016-05-02
What I find interesting in the Lithuanian literary history are the people who write without having a philological education, for example: graphic artist Jurga Ivanauskaitė, art critic Kristina Sabaliauskaitė, physicist Ričardas Gavelis or philosopher Dalia Staponkutė. Such writers have a distinct way of understanding literature. Art critic Alfonsas Andriuškevičius can also be put next to the authors without philological education.