Vytautas V. Landsbergis
Okronoska (Rudnosiuko istorijos)
LITHUANIA
BOOK
This collection of short stories, poems, and experimental texts introduces readers to a comical and sarcastic world in which animals and other creatures serve as protagonists. In a suspiciously transparent way, they behave like human beings forced to live in a manipulated socialist society full of illogically imposed rules. Okronoska the bear, who despite everything remains at heart a naive child in search of the truth, touches the reader with his simple innocence, behind which lies confusion about the state of affairs and about himself. With his biting, spot-on linguistic and situational humor, he manages better than anything else to highlight the absurdity of the society in which he lives.
Published by Boudon, 2025
AUTHOR
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Vytautas V. Landsbergis (* 1962) is one of the most prominent figures on the contemporary Lithuanian cultural scene. This writer, film and theater director, musician, and founder of the children’s literature publishing house Dominicus Lituanus graduated with a degree in Lithuanian philology from Vilnius University and later studied film directing in Georgia, the United States, Poland, and the United Kingdom.
Thanks to his Renaissance-like breadth of creative interests, he has gained immense popularity in Lithuania, and his books, films, and music regularly appear on bestseller lists.
TRANSLATION
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