Those Whom I Would Like to Meet Again (Lithuanian Literature) - Softcover

Radvilaviciute, Giedra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564788598 ISBN 13: 9781564788597

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, 2013

Synopsis

In ten of her best essay-stories, Giedra Radvilaviciute travels between the ridiculous and the sublime, the everyday and the extraordinary. In the place of plot, which the author claims to have had "shot and buried with the proper honors," the reader finds a dense, subtly interwoven structure of memory and reality, banalities and fantasy, all served up with a good dollop of absurdity and humor. We travel from the old town of Vilnius to Chicago's Brighton Park neighborhood, from the seaside to a local delicatessen, all in a narrative collage as exquisitely detailed as a bouquet of flowers. As in all of her work, Radvilaviciute plays with the genres of fiction and nonfiction, essay and short story, leading the experiences of life to be "unrecognizably transformed, like the flour, eggs, nuts, and apples in a cake."

About this title

About the Author:

Giedra Radvilavičiūte studied philology and literature at Vilnius University. She has worked as a teacher and as an editor, and her work has been published in numerous journals, as well as the inaugural volume of Best European Fiction. She has published two books of her essays in Lithuania.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1564788598
• ISBN 13: 9781564788597
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 129