Szkice wileńskie : rozprawy i eseje

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Vilnius; Literatūrinis gyvenimas; Kultūrinis gyvenimas; Litvinai; Lietuvos lenkų literatūra; Česlavas Milošas; Adomas Mickevičius (Adam Mickiewicz); Vilnius; Literary life; Cultural life; Polish literature in Lithuania; Czeslaw Milosz; Adam Mickiewicz.

ENThe volume consists of 19 works preceded by a short introduction. They cover the aspects of literary life and literature - mostly poetry -of Vilnius and partially of Lithuania in the 19th and 20th centuries. The major part of the book are works that focus on the period between the two World Wars. Written over a long period but mostly during the last decade of the 20th century, these works attempt at the definition of the less-known aspects of the Vilnius literary world from a variety of angles, trying at the same time to grasp the distinctiveness of that world. To a great extent, the authors make use of the so far poorly researched materials from Vilnius libraries and archives, referring to books, dailies, and periodicals frequently preserved in single copies. The works contained in the volume attempt also to mark new trends in research, especially at the interconnection of the ethnically varied cultures and literatures of Vilnius and the Vilnius Region. This is especially true about the presence of Lithuanian and Belorussian elements and their function in the shaping of the phenomenon of Vilnius literary life. Some of the works focus on researching of the Romantic - mostly Mickiewiczian - tradition that formed an image of "the own" world, characteristic for this literature, and defined by the consciousness of community of the inhabitants of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania. [From the publication]