Žmonės po ledu

Renata Šerelytė’s prose contains a set of literary characters that move from one book to another, independently of the genre, topic or chronology. It is constructed as a circle with the main heroine (a girl/teenager/young woman) in the centre, the family members around her, and the community of vill...

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Main Author: Jakonytė-Kvedarienė, Loreta
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:Lithuanian
English
Published: 2018
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spelling ftinstllt:oai:elaba:6215380 2023-05-15T16:39:11+02:00 Žmonės po ledu People beneath the ice : core characters in the prose of Renata Šerelytė Jakonytė-Kvedarienė, Loreta info:eu-repo/date/embargoEnd/2018-06-02 application/pdf https://vb.llti.lt/LLTI:ELABAPDB6215380&prefLang=en_US lit eng lit eng https://vb.llti.lt/object/elaba:6215380/6215380.pdf https://vb.llti.lt/LLTI:ELABAPDB6215380&prefLang=en_US info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess Darbai ir dienos, 2005, [T.] 42, p. 93-104 ISSN 1392-0588 Lithuanian prose literature Baltic literature info:eu-repo/classification/udc/82 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2018 ftinstllt 2022-01-11T08:46:47Z Renata Šerelytė’s prose contains a set of literary characters that move from one book to another, independently of the genre, topic or chronology. It is constructed as a circle with the main heroine (a girl/teenager/young woman) in the centre, the family members around her, and the community of village/town/city further. By using different characterization techniques (realistic, surrealistic, intertextual, ironic, stylized depictions, first/third-person narrators, free indirect speech, stream of consciousness, etc.), the writer creates diverse images of the people that live in the “frozen” world of the 1980–90’s. Their existence is marked by identity confusion, broken relations, loneliness, alcoholism, violence, inertia, and longing for a different life. Though quite a few features of Šerelytė’s characters might be linked with the preceding models of individuals in Lithuanian literature, the level of intensity and concentration of the pictures of this comfortless world, gloomy (post)Soviet society, permanently drunk father, abandoned childhood, submissive wives, women’s uncertainty, and problematic efforts to reach their new “selves” distinguishes the author in the context of contemporary Lithuanian prose. Article in Journal/Newspaper ice core Institutional Repository of Institute of the Lithuanian Literature and Folklore
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Jakonytė-Kvedarienė, Loreta
Žmonės po ledu
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description Renata Šerelytė’s prose contains a set of literary characters that move from one book to another, independently of the genre, topic or chronology. It is constructed as a circle with the main heroine (a girl/teenager/young woman) in the centre, the family members around her, and the community of village/town/city further. By using different characterization techniques (realistic, surrealistic, intertextual, ironic, stylized depictions, first/third-person narrators, free indirect speech, stream of consciousness, etc.), the writer creates diverse images of the people that live in the “frozen” world of the 1980–90’s. Their existence is marked by identity confusion, broken relations, loneliness, alcoholism, violence, inertia, and longing for a different life. Though quite a few features of Šerelytė’s characters might be linked with the preceding models of individuals in Lithuanian literature, the level of intensity and concentration of the pictures of this comfortless world, gloomy (post)Soviet society, permanently drunk father, abandoned childhood, submissive wives, women’s uncertainty, and problematic efforts to reach their new “selves” distinguishes the author in the context of contemporary Lithuanian prose.
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title Žmonės po ledu
title_short Žmonės po ledu
title_full Žmonės po ledu
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