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- Title
ESTETINĖ LIETUVIŲ LAIMOS LAIMĖ.
- Authors
Martinkus, Vytautas
- Abstract
The article discusses happiness as a value in 20th-21st century Lithuanian prose fiction. The question being raised is how the aesthetic expression of this ethic value has changed over a century. Jonas Biliunas's The Beacon of Happiness, written at the dawn of modern Lithuanian prose, and ramunas Kasparavicius's The Court of the Lithuanian Laima, representing postmodernist experiments, have been chosen for comparative analysis. in both works ethical values are transformed into aesthetic ones, using the archetypes of happiness or luck important in mythology. In Biliunas's folktale her image is represented by partial fate (fortune). The conclusion is reached that in Kasparavicius's novel the aesthetic expression of happiness is based on a more archaic archetype of life (the world). In Kasparavicius's novel Laima is either God's helper (imitator, trickster) or even the goddess Lada (Lela) in the form of a bird, whose cult several millenia ago meant the giver of life to the whole world, the renewer of everything. Luck not as a partial case of fulfillment, but as an integral feeling of human life is the novel's foundation of aesthetic function. Kasparavicius's novel is more archaic; through the aesthetic experience of its reading more complicated and deeper semantic meanings open up than in Biliunas's Beacon of Happiness.
- Subjects
LITHUANIA; HAPPINESS in literature; FORTUNE in literature; GODS in literature; THEMES in literature; PROSE literature
- Publication
Implied Meanings / Teksto Slėpiniai, 2009, Issue 12, p57
- ISSN
1648-6390
- Publication type
Article