Title Obuolio įvaizdis Mykolo Sluckio romane ADOMO OBUOLYS /
Translation of Title The image of an apple in the novel ADOMO OBUOLYS (Adam’s apple) by Mykolas Sluckis.
Authors Baliulė, Irena
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Is Part of Acta humanitarica universitatis Saulensis.. Šiauliai : Šiaulių universiteto leidykla. 2014, t. 18 : Tekstų skaitymai, p. 60-67.. ISSN 1822-7309
Keywords [eng] Mykolas Sluckis ; Lyrical prose ; A novel ; Features of narration ; The image of an apple
Abstract [eng] The paper deals with the novel Adomo obuolys (Adam's Apple) by Mykolas Sluckis, analysed on the basis of literary-historical approach and aspect-based analysis of lyrical prose. The novel has been analysed in broader terms in the context of the interior monologue prose, as a text of lyrical prose. the complex narrative metaphor starts with the title of the novel: ADAM'S APPLE. Through the image of Adam's apple ("apple" as fruit) the novel highlights such features of lyrical prose as juxtaposition of the past and the present, details of memory and artistic elements, the significance of associative thinking and becoming human through change and development, which has been achieved by the description of the main characters of the story – Augustinas Kamanis and his wife Genovaitė. Character description is based on opposition. The perception of the image of Adam's apple expands throughout the story from the primordial sin in a Biblical sense to the main character's guilt of the past and his present complexes, which leads to certain moral compromises. It depicts the life style of the time and reveals the formation of the consumer society in the concentrated manner. Nowadays reading the novel ADAM'S APPLE and looking back the readers realise that the constant image of Adam's Apple ("an apple" as fruit) manifests the generalised expression of the writer's position as well as the metaphor of the perceived historical timeline. The writer marks the element and creates an image (Adam's apple / an apple as fruit) which enables the reader, with the help of the literary memory, to reconstruct the whole picture. The description of the Soviet timeline in Lithuanian literature has covered the way from the normative literature to the shading representation through the process of rendering human experience and searching for real values. This is evident in Mykolas Sluckis' novels.
Published Šiauliai : Šiaulių universiteto leidykla
Type Journal article
Language Lithuanian
Publication date 2014