On September 29 (Tuesday) at 5:30 p.m., the library invites you to the History Manor - to the presentation of Vytautas V. Landsbergis' book "The Sagas of the Nameless".
The conversation will be moderated by art historians Inga and Alma Laužonytės.
Writer and director Vytautas V. Landsbergis, not for the first time moving along the path of reviving historical memory, this time constructs the story from the most important and painful events of the past century, draws storylines from the post-war period to the present day, and gives characters with tragic fates the power to speak even from the afterlife, using mythologized worldviews.
A rich, contrastingly colored story unfolds before the reader's eyes, stitched together from the portraits of individual characters, the most important of which is the partisan leader Bevardis. Through intriguing plot twists, the commonalities of the fate and worldview of the entire nation emerge, which are still haunted by the still lingering shadows of the bloody post-war period.
The vivid sound of the story is created by the unadorned language of the dialogues, which has absorbed the crudest elements of a foreign culture, and the completely different speech of the inhabitants of the other world – musical, poetic, and fluent. Like the swift rivers of Lithuania, winding through the forests that were the homes of the partisans and swiftly carrying their waters to the west – where Lithuanians have always turned their hopeful gaze…
