| Abstract [eng] |
The particularity of Lithuanian literature of the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, as well as that of the Eastern and Central European countries that shared a similar fate, is undoubtedly determined by fundamental turning-points of the epoch. In Lithuania, such turning-points were the Second World War, the occupation of Lithuania (the article focuses on the half-century long Soviet occupation), the national revival and the restoration of independence (1990) that conditioned changes of the political system, social "re-stratification", emergence of a new economic elite and alternation of prevailing ideologies. In accordance with Terry Eagleton's idea about literature "re-writing" societies (no literary work or its former assessment can possibly be transferred to other groups of people and remain unchanged), the article deals with the analysis of the reception of the novels by Jonas Avyžius, a socialist realism writer, in the context of fifferent ideologies (the Soviet, national, and consumer ones). Literature here is viewed as a writer's activity influenced by outer (political, economic, social and others) conditions and a literary work is regarded as a social message the reception of which is inseparable from the addressee's socially conditioned world outlook. Paradoxically, the ideologically formed social consciousness constantly "re-writes" the contents of the conception of ideology itself in the context of a prevailing ideology. |
