This article engages with the challenges of representing traumatic historical events in a post-traumatic situation when the process of narration involves negotiating the gap between the past and the present, between the narrator and the other’s suffering. Particularly, the article focuses on Latvian writer Inga Gaile’s novel The Beautiful Ones (Skaistās, 2019), which deals with the aforementioned structural and ethical complexities already in its beginning, subjecting it to a series of narrative erasures and thus signaling the difficulty of embarking on a story that would do justice to the impact of trauma. The beginning of Gaile’s novel deserves a close reading of its own since it provokes, in a concentrated form, broader questions about the nature of secondary witnessing, which grows out of researching history, and its potential reflection in narrative form. The article also discusses how a broken beginning might point to authorial values and frame the remaining novel as a sincere and deeply human approach to past tragedies.
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{"title":"The Letters of Juozas Lukša and Nijolė Bražėnaitė and the Issues Involved in Their Preparation","authors":"Jurgita Žana Raškevičiūtė","doi":"10.51554/coll.22.50.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51554/coll.22.50.13","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>-</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":37193,"journal":{"name":"Colloquia","volume":"154 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74910293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Industrial livestock production with its communication strategy aimed at concealing a filthy death and the bad taste of the meat produced has become an important motif in contemporary literature. How to create a narrative about the quiet life of animals that blend in a large herd? A life that is ruthlessly framed by a beginning (insemination) and an end (slaughter) lacks deviation and adventure—it lacks the possibility of becoming the material for a novel. The aim of this article is to examine the poetic devices and ethical aspirations of an emerging genre called the ‘agroalimentary novel,’ which depicts animals for profit and recreates their unique existence worthy of a story. Agroalimentary novels have become increasingly common in Europe and the Americas in the last decade. They raise the issue of taste very plainly: in Latin (gustus) and Old French (in the 12th c., gost and in the 13th c., goust), ‘taste’ is understood literally and figuratively, and is linked to the sense and appreciation of taste. The meaning of taste is associated with aesthetics, and not only with the senses, but also with art, not only with the body, but also with social issues; it refers to both practical activities and norms. How do the themes of livestock production and slaughterhouses relate to the issue of taste? Writers and readers find the aesthetics of the traditional novel problematic. When depicting it, some become inarticulate, while others are confronted with the inability to talk about it. In both cases, they confront the impossible symbolic act of appropriation. Loathing and disgust that is physically expressed and less humanly focused, even more distinctly than in the work of Jean Paul Sartre or in the various accounts of war, have entered literature.
工业化畜牧业及其传播策略旨在掩盖肮脏的死亡和所生产的肉类的不良味道，已成为当代文学的一个重要主题。如何创造一个关于融入大群体的动物安静生活的故事?由开始(授精)和结束(屠杀)无情地构成的生活缺乏偏离和冒险——它缺乏成为小说素材的可能性。这篇文章的目的是研究一种被称为“农业小说”的新兴类型的诗歌手法和伦理愿望，这种小说描绘动物以获取利润，并重现它们独特的存在，值得一个故事。在过去的十年里，农业小说在欧洲和美洲变得越来越普遍。他们很清楚地提出了品味的问题:在拉丁语(gustus)和古法语(在12世纪，gost和13世纪，ghost)中，“品味”被理解为字面上和比喻性的，并且与品味的感觉和欣赏有关。品味的意义与美学有关，不仅与感官有关，而且与艺术有关，不仅与身体有关，而且与社会问题有关;它既指实践活动，也指规范。畜牧生产和屠宰场的主题与味觉问题有什么关系?作家和读者都发现传统小说的美学存在问题。当描绘它时，有些人变得口齿不清，而另一些人则面临着无法谈论它的问题。在这两种情况下，他们都面临着不可能的象征性挪用行为。厌恶和厌恶是用身体表达的，很少关注人性，甚至比让·保罗·萨特(Jean Paul Sartre)的作品或各种关于战争的描述更明显，已经进入文学领域。
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Critics, who analyze the religiosity inherent in Czesław Miłosz’s poetry, quite often link it to the writer’s attitude to history and the experience of time (M. Masłowski and others). They also draw attention to the poetic transformation of prayers. However, the place of prayer in the consciousness of memory and other forms of this interaction have not been investigated in detail, especially not by Lithuanians. A new direction of comparison, i.e. the interactions of prayer and memory in the poetry of Miłosz and Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas, determines the novelty of the study. Lithuanian critics (V. Skrupskelytė, etc.) have analyzed religious experiences and the alterations of the Bible in the poetry of Nyka-Niliūnas, also hinting at prayer; however, the memory of prayer as a phenomenon deserves a closer look. Considering prayer as one of the essential religious phenomena, the main object of the article concerns the forms of interaction between the lyrical subject’s prayer and memory, analyzed with the help of literary theology and phenomenology.
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Researching Latvian literature in exile is a relatively new phenomenon that emerged in Latvia at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s. As the writers’ archives became accessible, new opportunities for research opened up. In this article,1 I look into the historical situation in the context of World War II, marking out potential directions of my research and a theoretical basis. Using the archives of the Latvian writer in exile, Indra Gubiņa, I focus on the city of her childhood, Jelgava, as a lost place that acquired a symbolic significance in author’s memories, the course of her life and literary geography. The article explores the nuances of Gubiņa’s double belonging, her connection to the place of her childhood and the Latvian language. The methodology used in my research marks out the potential and prospective approach to the creative oeuvre of Gubiņa from the theoretical point of view of lost place, the topography of childhood and literary geography. This kind of research on the life and works of a single writer serves as a possibility to widen the field of investigation in studying literature, taking into consideration a broader spatial context, and working with the new tools of research.
{"title":"The Lost Place of Childhood: Writer Indra Gubiņa’s Memories, Life and the Literary Geographical Aspect","authors":"Inguna Daukste-Silasproģe","doi":"10.51554/coll.22.50.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51554/coll.22.50.03","url":null,"abstract":"Researching Latvian literature in exile is a relatively new phenomenon that emerged in Latvia at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s. As the writers’ archives became accessible, new opportunities for research opened up. In this article,1 I look into the historical situation in the context of World War II, marking out potential directions of my research and a theoretical basis. Using the archives of the Latvian writer in exile, Indra Gubiņa, I focus on the city of her childhood, Jelgava, as a lost place that acquired a symbolic significance in author’s memories, the course of her life and literary geography. The article explores the nuances of Gubiņa’s double belonging, her connection to the place of her childhood and the Latvian language. The methodology used in my research marks out the potential and prospective approach to the creative oeuvre of Gubiņa from the theoretical point of view of lost place, the topography of childhood and literary geography. This kind of research on the life and works of a single writer serves as a possibility to widen the field of investigation in studying literature, taking into consideration a broader spatial context, and working with the new tools of research.","PeriodicalId":37193,"journal":{"name":"Colloquia","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88172924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gitana Vanagaitė, Tomas Vaiseta, Mindaugas Nastaravičius
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{"title":"A Talk That Inquires","authors":"Gitana Vanagaitė, Tomas Vaiseta, Mindaugas Nastaravičius","doi":"10.51554/coll.22.50.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51554/coll.22.50.07","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>-</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":37193,"journal":{"name":"Colloquia","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87832030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jonutytė Jurga, Šmitienė Giedrė 2021. Gyvatės kojos: Negalios samprata gyvenimo pasakojimuose, Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 354 p., ISBN 978-609-425-313-3
{"title":"My and Your Ability and Disability","authors":"Ramunė Bleizgienė","doi":"10.51554/coll.22.50.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51554/coll.22.50.11","url":null,"abstract":"Jonutytė Jurga, Šmitienė Giedrė 2021. Gyvatės kojos: Negalios samprata gyvenimo pasakojimuose, Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 354 p., ISBN 978-609-425-313-3","PeriodicalId":37193,"journal":{"name":"Colloquia","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76849415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-30DOI: 10.51554/10.51554/coll.22.50.12
Vigmantas Butkus
-Avotiņa Daina 2018. Soliņš pie Salacas, [priekšvārda autors Jānis Peters], Rīga: Zvaigzne ABC, 237 p. ISBN 9789934077920
{"title":"A Long Dialogue Between Alfonsas Maldonis and Daina Avotiņa: Writers Talk—Literatures Talk","authors":"Vigmantas Butkus","doi":"10.51554/10.51554/coll.22.50.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51554/10.51554/coll.22.50.12","url":null,"abstract":"-Avotiņa Daina 2018. Soliņš pie Salacas, [priekšvārda autors Jānis Peters], Rīga: Zvaigzne ABC, 237 p. ISBN 9789934077920","PeriodicalId":37193,"journal":{"name":"Colloquia","volume":"163 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83207107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Valdemaras Klumbys, Stovėję po medžiu: lietuvių inteligentijos elgesio strategijos sovietmečiu, Lietuvos istorijos institutas, Vilnius, MMXXI, 376 p., ISBN 978-609-8183-97-9
{"title":"The Intelligentsia in a Political Epoch","authors":"Jūratė Sprindytė","doi":"10.51554/coll.22.49.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51554/coll.22.49.10","url":null,"abstract":"Valdemaras Klumbys, Stovėję po medžiu: lietuvių inteligentijos elgesio strategijos sovietmečiu, Lietuvos istorijos institutas, Vilnius, MMXXI, 376 p., ISBN 978-609-8183-97-9","PeriodicalId":37193,"journal":{"name":"Colloquia","volume":"140 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78201997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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