Poetry
Neornamentuotos kalbos generacija ir augintiniai
Not translated into English
Algimantas Mackus · 1962
Synopsis
The book, whose title announces its two parts, speaks of exile and poetry in a world where God no longer takes part in human existence. The poet confronts a God who judges and calls things to the Last Judgement. Among the adopted children appear the good preacher John, an African whom the Lord orders to betray the spirits of his ancestors, and little Jurek, a brown-eyed Jewish boy from the Vilnius ghetto.
Context
The collection appeared in Chicago in 1962 from Santara, and the author presented it at an evening held on 9 March 1963, the speech from which appeared in 1965 in the review Metmenys. Vytautas Kavolis reads in these poems a struggle with the necessity of God, a God refounded on human fidelity, and holds Jurek's poem to be stronger than Yevtushenko's Babi Yar. Dalia Satkauskytė notes in it the radical clash of syntax and meaning, in a prayer that begins with the announcement of summer.
Who it is for
Harsh and hermetic poems, in a stripped-down language; no French or English translation has been found.
Prizes and reception
According to the Lithuanian encyclopaedia, the book made its author the leading poet of the generation known as the landless.
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