Sofija

LTKnygoje autorė, kaip jai įprasta, jautriai ir giliai analizuoja Sofijos Čiurlionienės-Kymantaitės gyvenimą ir kūrybą. Kymantaitės gyvenimas knygoje tyrinėjamas kaip tekstas, ypatingą dėmesį atkreipiant į jos kovą už vyrų ir moterų lygybę, aktyvų dalyvavimą Vilniaus spaudos gyvenime; aptariamas jos platus kūrybinis palikimas. Bendro gyvenimo su Mikalojumi Konstantinu Čiurlioniu svarba atskleidžiama analizuojant jųdviejų laiškus, taip pat apžvelgiamas Sofijos santykis su jos šeimos nariais, lietuviškąja literatūros tradicija, kalbos mokytojais. Kymantaitės darbai lyginami su Vydūno, teigiama, kad ji buvusi ne vien sociokritikė, bet ir viena svarbiausių savo laikmečio švietėjų.Reikšminiai žodžiai: Sofija Čiurlionienė-Kymantaitė; Laiškai; Atsiminimai; Kūryba; Salomėja Nėris; Sofija Čiurlionienė-Kymantaitė; Letters; Memoirs; Salomėja Nėris.

ENSofija is a monographic examination of the biography and creative work of Sofija Čiurlionienė-Kymantaitė. Based on phenomenological attention, her life is also approached as a discreetly unveiled and interpreted text. Bridges are built between creative work and life experience, connections are highlighted, but direct analogies are not sought. Sofija Čiurlionienė-Kymantaitė was one of the first Lithuanian women intellectuals who consciously pursued equality of women and men, who studied humanities at the University of Cracow, and who was an active figure of the Lithuanian press in Vilnius. She had various creative aspirations, wrote poetry, prose, and dramas. She distinguished herself in early Lithuanian literary criticism that can be described as a quest for links between individuality, the Lithuanian spirit, and modernity, and which found reflection in her book Lietuvoje (In Lithuania, 1910).[...] In the monograph the essential aspects of this encounter are revealed through letters, which are seen as important material in general. While teaching Čiurlionis Lithuanian and through emotional suggestion Sofija boosted the Lithuanian spirit of the great artist and his attention to folklore. Their life together was short: her husbands dramatic death as though drew a dividing line in her life. The author of the monograph delves into those psychological turning points of the loss that had the strongest impact on Sofijas creative work. [...]. [From the publication]