Ezopo kalba kaip semiotinis mechanizmas

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Semiotika; Sovietmetis; Literatūra.

ENThe author of this study discusses Aesopic language - one of the main concepts used to describe alternative forms of expression in relation to official Soviet-era norms. The investigator modifies this concept, claiming that Aesopic language is a general semiotic mechanism. Although Aesopic expression assumes a connection between literary and political discourse, it does not presuppose a concrete political position. The author demonstrates this using an example of pro-Soviet Aesopic language in Lithuanian literature - JustinasMarcinkevičius’s poem “Jaunystė” (Youth, 1955). In addition to this poem, he offers interpretations of two either non-Soviet or anti-Soviet texts: the introductory paragraph to Juozas Aputis’s novella “Dobile. 1954 naktį” (Clover. The Night of 1954, published in 1967) and Sigitas Geda’s poem “Lietuvos atsiradimas” (Lithuania’s Rise 1966). In his analysisof these three texts, the author elaborates studies of Aesopic language by both Lev Loseff and Lithuanian critics, distinguishing several of its common features: he reinterprets the static screen/marker opposition introduced by Loseff as a dynamic intention-forming trajectory, the hitherto considered passive Aesopic ambivalence as a purposeful Aesopic process of destabilizing meanings, and the writer-reader contract, a condition for understanding Aesopic content, - as a textualized interplay between common memory and its concrete fragments. The chapter raises hypotheses around the possibility of studying Aesopic language as an expression of so-called quiet resistance, and considers whether it might be possible to perceive, in the ways that Aesopic language is used, tendencies related to the stereotyping and political hermenization of common memory. [From the publication]