Du Giedros Radvilavičiūtės eseistikos siužetai

LTStraipsnio tikslas – aptariant Giedros Radvilavičiūtės kūrybą, pasiūlyti keletą būdų skaityti šiuolaikinę lietuvių eseistiką. Pirmiausia analizuojamas itin ryškus Radvilavičiūtės tekstų bruožas – nuolatinė žanrinė autorefleksija, kurią formuoja santykiai su svetimais tekstais. O keliakryptis intertekstualumas verčia iš naujo pažvelgti į esė raktažodžiu tapusią patirtinio rašymo sampratą. Straipsnyje remiamasi dviem prielaidomis: pirma – į Radvilavičiūtės tekstus galima žvelgti kaip į bendrą pasakojimą, kuriam būdingas nuoseklumas ir sistemingumas; antra – juos galima laikyti lietuvių eseistikos branduoliu, tad šio pasakojimo struktūros analizė grįstų ir bendrus apmąstymus apie žanrą. Abi prielaidos išankstinės ir priklauso vien nuo skaitytojo pozicijos, todėl ir apmąstymai tegali būti sąlygiški. Bet taip iliustruojama probleminė straipsnio mintis: būtinybė pasirinkti žvilgsnio rakursą lemia prieštaringus eseistikos vertinimus, o šių rakursų tarpusavio nedermė – paties žanro neapibrėžiamumą. [Iš leidinio]Reikšminiai žodžiai: Eseistika; Giedra Radvilavičiūtė; Intertekstualumas; Patirtinis rašymas; Žanras; Essay; Experiential writing; Experiential writting; Genre; Giedra Radvilavičiūtė; Inertextuality; Intertextuality.

ENThe goal of this article is to discuss Giedra Radvilavičiūtė’s writing and to offer different ways of reading the contemporary Lithuanian essay. The author begins with evaluating a very distinct characteristic of Radvilavičiūtė’s texts – their continual (in terms of genre) autoreflexivity, which itself is shaped by their interactions with other texts. This multi-directional intertextuality causes us to reevaluate the very idea of experiential writing and how it is being explored in the Lithuanian essay. The analysis offered is based on two assumptions: first, that in a general sense, Radvilavičiūtė’s texts can be interpreted as a narrative marked by consistency and coherence; secondly, that because Radvilavičiūtė’s work can be seen as emblematic of Lithuanian essay-writing, analysis of its narrative structures should produce some general conclusions about the genre. These are a priori assumptions that are based on the reader’s position, so the explorations offered remain conditional. They do, however, illustrate the main idea explored in the article: that the need to choose a perspective results in different assessments of the essay genre, while the dissonance between these perspectives is related to the indefinable nature of the genre itself. This indefinability becomes a key feature of Radvilavičiūtė’s essays. Although at first glance it seems that they draw on experience and follow the principles of experiential writing, analysis of the structure of the texts and their intertextual references reveals that that experience is merely a construct, because it is made up exclusively of extraneous (textual) experiences. These conclusions make it possible to speak about two ways of reading the essay: either as a document reflecting "reality", or as a particular textual phenomenon.If we were to choose only one of these approaches, we would lose sight of the fact that the essay cannot be divorced either from reality or from textual manipulation. As the author of the article suggests, the ability to recognize this duality is one of the main prerequisites for reading the contemporary Lithuanian essay. [From the publication]