Ričardas Gavelis

romanas

Vilniaus pokeris

Elizabeth Novickas

four different perspectives, and it captures the surreal horror of life under the Soviet yoke." --Book Jacket.

Vilnius Poker

La 4ème de couverture indique : " Ils l'observent, Ils le suivent, Vytautas Vargalys le sait : sa vie est celle d'un homme qu'on a mis en joue. Ils sont partout, Vilnius leur appartient, alors que lui n'est qu'un simple employé de bibliothèque chargé de référencer les livres qu'Ils ont mis à l'index. Traumatisé par neuf années de tortures endurées au goulag, il se bat désormais pour comprendre Leur but. Gardien de l'histoire de son pays et de ses mythes, le dernier des Vargalys sombre petit à petit dans la folie. Seule Lolita, jeune séductrice au passé trouble et au corps parfait, lui permet encore de croire qu'une nouvelle vie est possible. Mais le sauvera-t-elle ou précipitera-t-elle sa chute?"

roman

Jauno žmogaus memuarai

Vilniaus džiazas

Вільнюський покер

Although set inside the corruption and cynicism of Lithuania's post-Soviet space, this novel is horrifyingly prescient of today's politics. A former child prodigy and government puppet master, transformed into a modern-day Sun-Tzu, retreats to an underground compound to wage war on the cockles of the earth.

Sun-Tzu's Life in the Holy City of Vilnius

Wileński poker Ricaradas Gavelisa jest książką przełomową w literaturze litewskiej i zarazem w litewskiej kulturze i społeczeństwie, również przełomem jaki dokonał się w latach osiemdziesiątych. Autor odważnie porusza w niej tematy i problemy, o których dotychczas milczano – te zabronione przez władze sowieckie, ale i te uważane za tabu przez Litwinów.

Wileński poker

Paskutinioji Žemės žmonių karta

Levas Ciparis, the anti-hero of this masterly critique of life in the late Soviet Union, is a man alone and he desperately wants to belong. He is obstructed in this quest by his own innocence and decency, which occasionally cause him to act with absurd inflexibility. In fact, the irresolvable tension between moral probity and necessary compromise is one of the many themes of this novel: "Yes, I truly did believe, being an honest, sufficiently pure and persistent person, that if I took up the work of the Komsomol, I would most certainly be capable of changing and enriching that community." In part, the first-person narration describes the process of being disabused of that delusion. Ciparis is dead and writes letters to his estranged friend Tomas Kelertas, with whom he has something of a love-hate relationship, which became more obsessive after their estrangement. The randomness of life does not always work against Ciparis, as he recounts his experiences from sickly child in a basement flat to his final moments in Leningrad when all options fall away. The system can work in his favour - primarily through a marriage that gains him a father-in-law who is a powerful, intelligent and utterly corrupt politician at the very top of the Soviet regime in Lithuania - but ultimately there is no place for him in that society or perhaps anywhere. Memoirs of a Life Cut Short is full of ideas, doubts and insightful observations on human behaviour borne along on a helter-skelter plot. Book jacket.

Memoirs of a Life Cut Short

Levas Ciparis, the anti-hero of this masterly critique of life in the late Soviet Union, is a man alone and he desperately wants to belong.

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