Temat muzyki we współczesnej literaturze litewskiej
Abstract
Music is not a very topical theme in contemporary Lithuanian literature. The Lithuanian
literature saved its meditative and visual nature during the most difficult epoch of
historical and social cataclysms, and only some romanticists and symbolists talked about
an exceptional music effect on human organism (prosaist Śatrijos Ragana, poet Vincas
Mykolaitis-Putinas). Only few auhtors invoke the tune and symbolism of music in
contemporary Lithuanian literature. A. A. Jonynas, one of the most popular poets,
created verses in the rythm of jazz, swing, hard rock, metal, rock’n’roll during the Soviet
period. The idea of music lived the freedom of form, the idea of freedom in general in
that creation. Postmodernist G. Grajauskas choosed the tune of music in his book Bone
pipe (1999) in order to discuss difficult existential questions. Playing, whistling, singing
means the rythm of breathing and existence in that creation. The sense of musical
harmony is more likely to be associated with the experience of silence in contemporary
Lithuanian literature (G. Cieškaitė, D. Kajokas, N. Miliauskaitė).