Poetry
Tylos valandos
Not translated into English
Janina Degutytė · 1978
Synopsis
A selection of lyric poems in which nature, the seasons and the cosmos mingle with the history of the country. Orpheus retakes the myth of the singer and Eurydice; Judas asks why one was sold for thirty pieces of silver; the wooden christs carved by the people recall the uprisings and exile in Siberia; a poem addressed to Lithuania evokes the hands of the kings of Čiurlionis, another the seven hills of Vilnius.
Context
The book appeared in Vilnius in 1978 from Vaga and brings together poems chosen by the author. A Soviet critic noted in it a love of life and of nature, the close ties between man and the natural world, and the strong imprint of popular poetics; the Lithuanian encyclopaedia speaks of a world seen as a harmonious whole and of a marked ethical maximalism. Ina Bertulytė Bray sees in her a poet of nature and of the miniature, nourished by popular songs and laments as well as by the figures of Antigone or Cassandra.
Who it is for
A volume of lyric poems steeped in folklore, myths and painting; no French or English translation of the collection has been found.
Prizes and reception
The magazine Aidai drew from it in 1991 the selection of poems with which it paid tribute to the poet.
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