{"id":12455,"date":"2020-10-08T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T10:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/ksiazek\/herito-nr-40-litwa\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T11:25:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T11:25:49","slug":"herito-nr-40-litwa","status":"publish","type":"ksiazek","link":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/ksiazek\/herito-nr-40-litwa\/","title":{"rendered":"HERITO, No. 40: Lithuania"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Issue of \u201cHerito\u201d devoted to Lithuania, its culture, heritage, and history.
What do we know about the culture of Lithuania? What is the nature of its connection to the Baltic? To what extent is it defined by its links with Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and Scandinavia? Why is Lithuanian culture so democratic? Where do the Lithuanian vitality and ecological sensibility originate? \u2013 these are some of the questions addressed in the 40th anniversary issue of \u201cHerito\u201d.
In spite of the stereotypes established in Poland \u2013 those of the pagan Lithuanian forest or the tropes of Mickiewicz and Mi\u0142osz \u2013 the authors look at Lithuania from an unusual side, from the sea. That is why they write more about the Curonian Spit, Palanga, Nida and Klaipeda. Having reached Vilnius, they suggest a different journey \u2013 in search of less known monuments than those along the beaten track to the Gate of Dawn, choosing Jan Krzysztof Glaubitz, Wawrzyniec Gucewicz and Mikalojus Vorobjovas as their guides.
The guides also include prominent Lithuanian intellectuals: Leonidas Donskis \u2013 who looks at Klaipeda the way Mann once portrayed L\u00fcbeck \u2013 and Mindaugas Kvietkauskas \u2013 the recent minister of culture, who in an interview outlines the specificity of Lithuanian culture, places of Lithuanian memory and oblivion, neighbourly ties, and also rereads the landscape of baroque Vilnius, the city of eternal movement.
Moreover, Nikodem Szczyg\u0142owski asks about the identity of contemporary Lithuania; Ma\u0142gorzata Omilanowska, Bartosz Sadulski and Nijol\u0117 Strakauskait\u0117 discover the Baltic Lithuania; Piotr Pazi\u0144ski recalls the heritage of Lithuanian Jews; Ma\u0142gorzata Kasner, Adam Mazur and Dariusz Kacprzak talk about the Vilnius architecture, Lithuanian photography and painting; Maciej Topolski and Wojciech Stanis\u0142awski focus on Lithuanian literature and Dalia Staponkut\u0117 looks at her homeland from the Mediterranean distance, asking where and why she feels \u201cat home\u201d.
The issue also includes the first Polish translation of Thomas Mann\u2019s essay Mein Sommerhaus, dedicated to his summer home in the Curonian Spit. Mann writes: \u201cThe place made a deep impression on us. It exudes a surprisingly southern atmosphere. In summer, with the blue sky, the water of the lagoon is sapphire. It is like the Mediterranean Sea. There is a species of pine trees much like the Mediterranean stone pine. The white coast makes beautiful bends, you might think you are in North Africa. We spotted a hill on the coast and started flirting with the construction plot. At the time of our departure, our relationship became so solid that it was impossible to withdraw, even if we wanted to. With the help of local agents, we signed a lease agreement with the Lithuanian Forest Authority, an architectural office in Memel was engaged, and we built a wooden house by post. Everything was remarkably simple, just wood and varnish. The house was ready the following summer. We came and sat on the porch of our cottage as if it were the most natural thing in the world.\u201d
On the margins of Lithuanian topics, the issue also includes an interview with Bal\u00e1zs Ablonczy, the historian managing the Trianon 100 research project on the centenary of the Trianon Treaty, and an essay by Mi\u0142osz Walig\u00f3rski on an imaginary literary balloon journey from Novi Sad to Tallinn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Editorial
Akin, Though Not Identical. Mindaugas Kvietkauskas is interviewed by Agata W\u0105sowska\u2011Pawlik and \u0141ukasz Galusek
<\/strong>Nikodem Szczyg\u0142owski \u2013 Centre of Gravity Moving North
<\/strong>Piotr Pazi\u0144ski \u2013 Litvaks
<\/strong>Leonidas Donskis \u2013 Klaip\u0117da as a Form of Spiritual Life
<\/strong>Nijol\u0117 Strakauskait\u0117 \u2013 A Story of One Square
<\/strong>Ma\u0142gorzata Omilanowska \u2013 Po\u0142\u0105ga\/Palanga. The Shared Polish\u2011Lithuanian Heritage
<\/strong>Thomas Mann \u2013 My Summer House
<\/strong>Bartosz Sadulski \u2013 Thomas In His Castle of a House
<\/strong>Mindaugas Kvietkauskas \u2013 Master of Eternal Movement
<\/strong>Ma\u0142gorzata Kasner \u2013 A Vilnius Story by Mikalojus Vorobjovas
<\/strong>Adam Mazur \u2013 Glimpses of Beauty
Can See Your Beauty\u2026 About Lithuanian art from \u010ciurlionis to Kairi\u016bk\u0161tis. Dariusz Kacprzak talks to Agata W\u0105sowska\u2011Pawlik and \u0141ukasz Galusek
<\/strong>Dalia Staponkut\u0117 \u2013 The Personal Myth Puzzle
<\/strong>Wojciech Stanis\u0142awski \u2013 By the River Marycha I Sat Down and Wept
<\/strong>Maciej Topolski \u2013 Lithuania Four Times
<\/strong>Mi\u0142osz Walig\u00f3rski \u2013 Affairs and Afflictions (In a Hot Air Balloon to Tallinn)
Trianon as Our \u201cDon\u2019t Move It, Don\u2019t Touch It\u201d. Bal\u00e1zs Ablonczy<\/strong>interviewed by Tam\u00e1s Balassa
Worth a Thought<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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