Pasaulinės dvasinės kultūros poreikis - modernaus estetizmo genezės prielaida XX a. pradžios baltų literatūroje

ENWhen discussing modemist literature of the beginning of the 20lh century, the contemporary socio-cultural discourse should be taken into consideration. Modem art and literature were being created in the context of urban mentality. Baltic nations (Lithuanians and Latvians) only at the end of the 19th century began to create their authentic national culture the basis of which was the rural culture and art. For the urban culture to start existing at the time, urban mentality had to be formed in the first place. It happened that not the urban culture was the basis for modem literature in the Baltic states but the modem literature which had been greatly influenced by European modernism became the founder of urban culture. Thus, the turning point in modernist aesthetics in Baltic literature took place not because of an authentic cultural experience there but was influenced by an European experience which came through literary texts. [From the publication]