Apie "Juos" ir "tą fantasmagoriją": sovietmečio vaizdinija Ričardo Gavelio romanuose

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Sovietmetis; Romanai; Literatūra; Kūryba; Vilnius; Absurdas.

ENThe author of this chapter discusses Soviet imagery in the earlier works of novelist Ričardas Gavelis (1950-2002): Jauno žmogaus memuarai (Memoirs of a Young Man, 1989), Vilniaus pokeris (Vilnius poker, 1989), and Vilniaus džiazas (Vilnius Jazz, 1993). She offers a study of the main characters and images, reconstructing the circumstances of their appearance and their roles in the writer’s creative universe. Čerškutė comes to the conclusion that the use of fantasmago- rical imagery intensifies with each novel, revealing the author’s changing relationships - from the intimate, almost identical, mirror-like reflection of the Soviet system of Jauno žmogaus memuarai to the painfully ironic and absurd circus of Vilniaus džiazas. While creating metaphors of the Soviet era, Gavelis maintains a similar relationship with the Soviet system and at the same time transforms it. Like his characters, Gavelis identifies with the system and consciously rejects all types of relationships. The analysis suggests that this doubleness connecting the characteristics of homo sovieticus and homo lithuanicus is a distinct manifestation of postoconial consciusness. [From the publication]

• Ričardo Gavelio „Vilniaus pokerio“ kultūrinių realijų vartojimas ir vertimas į anglų ir prancūzų kalbas / Aurelija Leonavičienė, Gintarė Inokaitytė. Darnioji daugiakalbystė 2023, 22, p. 212-257.
• "They" and "I": between fantasy and reality / Violeta Katinienė. Lituanus. 2020, vol. 66, no. 4, p. 30-43.