![]() Savickis work is dominated by aesthetic foundations. The artistic language is laconic the information about the characters and actions is presented in concise, yet precise, hints. At first sight, the fragmented narrative might seem incoherent: syntactic structures are taken apart, traditional punctuation is disregarded, and there is a strong predilection for ellipses. Mocking stereotypes and playing with associations and cultural references, the author oriented himself towards an intellectual reader aware of developments in Western art and literature, and capable of admiring the text per se with its linguistic inventiveness, coded overtones, unexpected parallels and deformed images. Stylistically and thematically, his work contrasted with established traditions, yet his aristocratic manner of writing was alien to the movement of avant-garde literature at the time. Six volumes of Savickis works were published in Savickis short prose is mostly linked with expressionism, although we can discern the features of other modernist trends in it. He left the manuscript of his wartime diaries Žemė dega (The Earth is Burning, published in 1956). ![]() He published the short story collections Šventadienio sonetai (The Sonnets of Holy Days, 1922), Ties aukštu sostu (By a Lofty Throne, 1928), Raudoni batukai (Red Shoes, 1951), the novel Šventoji Lietuva (Holy Lithuania, 1952), the long short story Mano geriausias draugas (My Best Friend, 1952), several travel books, Enresje gennen Litauen (A Journey in Lithuania, in Danish, 1919), Truputis Afrikos (A Bit of Africa, 1934), the collection of articles Lysskaer (The Dawn, in Danich, 1919) and others. In 1939 he settled in France, where he had bought some land in Here he constructed his villa Ariogala, and engaged in gardening and vegetable growing. In he headed the State Theatre of Lithuania. During his diplomatic career he represented Lithuania in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Holland, Finland, Latvia and the League of Nations. ![]() Savickis studied in Moscow, St Petersburg and Cracow. He was a representative of high modernism and the urban mentality, and a conveyer of the existential world outlook in Lithuanian literature. 1 Romas Daugirdas, A Portrait Painted in a Dotted Line, VilniusR, no 17, 2005, pp 79 81 Юрате Сприндите, Тоска по простоте, DN, 1999, no 5, pp Savickis, Jurgis LT (* Pagausantis, Raseiniai region, Lithuania, Roquebrune Cap Martin, southern France) Prose writer and diplomat. ![]()
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