| Abstract [eng] |
The image of an inn in the Bible marks marginal, often formidable situation, however, it also reveals the content of the law of Love, the other truth of God. The semantic fi eld of this image, the history of Jesus Christ, Christian consciousness, and Franciscan topography of road – all that is important while analyzing the motives of the inn or other similar place in the Lithuanian literature. The method of the present article is the analysis of theopoetics. The cycle “Užeigoje prie Vilniaus vieškelio” by Kazys Bradūnas is also the starting point in discussing these texts: “Vidudienis kaimo smuklėje” by Antanas Vaičiulaitis, “Kalėdų vaizdelis” by Antanas Škėma, “Vyno stebuklas” by Kornelijus Platelis, “Rue de Saine” by Jonas Mekas, the poem “Apie žmones ir obuolius” by Vladas Šlaitas, and Blanchisserie, arba Žvėrynas – Užupis by Jurgis Kunčinas. The journey of the lyrical subject in the cycle of poems by Bradūnas is characterized by strong dramatism of historical consciousness. Transformed events and actions allow this journey to be understood as the equivalent of the road of the Passion of Jesus Christ. Certain things also give a sense to an inn as a station of the road of the cross. Tavern is not an accidental place of the play by Škėma. The ambiguous mystery of the recognition of God, his miracles and death, the drama of human confession and suffering occur in this space of daily life and rest. The topography of evangelical miracle is also revealed in the poem by Platelis which gets closer to Škėma’s work by the convention of faith and the ostensibility of the divine reality. Not only daily play and bohemian ease but also the atmosphere of metaphysical longing, unexpected associations of the Passion of Jesus Christ are characteristic to the action of Kunčinas’ novel taking place in bars and cafes, on the way to them or from them. [...]. |
