Romualdas Granauskas: The pothole
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Publisher Info. An important late work of the great master of the Lithuanian literature: a moving tale of mercy and hope, about guilt and fate.
Romualdas Granauskas is considered one of the most important Lithuanian writers, as a "word magician", exposing his works in the archetypes of the collective unconscious and the real action happening excessive mystical forceful language.
In "The pothole," he tells about the life of Gaucys Jiuozapas, who grows up away from civilization in a small village on the edge between highway and railway tracks. Gaucys is a dreamer who loves nature and has few friends. But it is the most reliable person in the world. Later, in the city school, it opens a new world, he discovered reading and dreaming of the university. But the death of his best friend Gaucys completely throws off the track, he feels guilty, even if no one reproaches him.
Gaucys logs for a construction and assembly plant in Klaipeda. What he experienced there, like a nightmare. The dorm is more of a hut: violence, theft, alcohol and all-embracing lawlessness have all human relationships, even between the sexes and to children, brutalized and destroyed. Also Gaucys has little to oppose his fate, he is as trapped in a cycle of guilt and helplessness, from which there is no escape.
Romualdas Granauskas is considered one of the most important Lithuanian writers, as a "word magician", exposing his works in the archetypes of the collective unconscious and the real action happening excessive mystical forceful language.
In "The pothole," he tells about the life of Gaucys Jiuozapas, who grows up away from civilization in a small village on the edge between highway and railway tracks. Gaucys is a dreamer who loves nature and has few friends. But it is the most reliable person in the world. Later, in the city school, it opens a new world, he discovered reading and dreaming of the university. But the death of his best friend Gaucys completely throws off the track, he feels guilty, even if no one reproaches him.
Gaucys logs for a construction and assembly plant in Klaipeda. What he experienced there, like a nightmare. The dorm is more of a hut: violence, theft, alcohol and all-embracing lawlessness have all human relationships, even between the sexes and to children, brutalized and destroyed. Also Gaucys has little to oppose his fate, he is as trapped in a cycle of guilt and helplessness, from which there is no escape.
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