Primal Images of a Peaceful Being: Tracing a Novel (Works by Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas and Adalbert Stifter)

Q3 Arts and Humanities
Colloquia Pub Date : 2020-12-21 DOI:10.51554/col.2020.28587
Rita Tūtlytė
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The aim of the article is to examine the longing for a “peaceful being” identified in the works of the 20th-century Lithuanian writer Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas and to explore his literary sources. The focus is on the novel Der Nachsommer (1857) [Indian Summer] of the 19th-century Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter, which Nyka-Niliūnas constantly mentions in his diaries. The author of the article also introduces the most important observations by the German / Austrian literary critics about the novel on this subject. From a comparative point of view, the author elaborates on the aspects that are close to the worldview of both Stifter and Niliūnas. Finally, she talks about the history of reception of Stifter’s works mentioned in Niliūnas’s diaries.Stifter’s novel depicts a closed, calm, and „storm-free“ world deliberately created by an individual. In this respect, Niliūnas’s works depict a clear connection between the space of the childhood home and loved ones, providing a sense of security and the importance of consistency and daily monotony that ensures a sense of stability. The relationship with the reality of things in the writers’ works differs: Stifter experiences the positivist closeness to reality, whereas Niliūnas’s works are characterized by the sensory and ontological being.In terms of time, Niliūnas puts his own twist on a safe nest of existence. He perceives the change of the seasons and their turnover as a measure of the stability of existence. The poet stops / restores the flow of time by remembering and by layering the segments of time. In this way, the time revolving around the circle of nature, or the circle of memories ensures the sustainability of the personal world. Stifter’s “Rosenhaus” is an idyllic place where a person goes through a thorough process of self-education (the novel is considered a Bildungsroman).Niliūnas recognizes in Stifter’s novel the importance of selfdevelopment. In silent solitude, to set off purposefully to the worlds of art and philosophy had been poet's main frame of mind through his entire life. Like Stifter, Niliūnas uses intertextual substitutions and cultural plots. It is probable that with the outbreak of war in Europe and the collapse of stability, to Niliūnas, the connoisseur of books, Stifter’s novel was  personally a very significant discovery, becoming one of the pillars of his worldview. The author of the article concludes that Niliūnas was affected by the conceptual layer of the Stifter’s novel—the revolving of the ontologically safe existence.
平和生命的原始意象:一部小说的追寻(阿方萨斯Nyka-Niliūnas和阿德伯特·斯蒂特的作品)
本文旨在探讨20世纪立陶宛作家Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas作品中对“和平存在”的渴望,并探索他的文学来源。重点是19世纪奥地利作家Adalbert Stifter的小说《Der Nachsommer》(1857)[Indian Summer], Nyka-Niliūnas在他的日记中经常提到这本小说。文章的作者还介绍了德国/奥地利文学评论家对这部小说在这个主题上的最重要的观察。作者从比较的角度,阐述了斯蒂特和Niliūnas的世界观接近的方面。最后,她谈到了Niliūnas日记中提到的Stifter作品的接受历史。斯蒂特的小说描绘了一个封闭的、平静的、“没有风暴”的世界,是由一个人刻意创造的。在这方面,Niliūnas的作品描绘了童年家园和亲人空间之间的清晰联系,提供了一种安全感,以及一致性和日常单调的重要性,确保了稳定感。在作家的作品中,与事物现实的关系有所不同:斯蒂特经历了实证主义的贴近现实,而Niliūnas的作品则以感性和本体论的存在为特征。就时间而言,Niliūnas在一个安全的存在之巢中融入了自己的风格。他认为季节的变化和更替是衡量生存稳定性的标准。诗人通过回忆和分层时间片段来停止/恢复时间的流动。这样,时间围绕着自然的循环,或者记忆的循环,保证了个人世界的可持续性。斯蒂特的《罗森豪斯》是一个田园诗般的地方,一个人在这里经历了彻底的自我教育过程(这部小说被认为是一部成长小说)。Niliūnas在斯蒂特的小说中认识到了自我发展的重要性。在沉默的孤独中,有目的地进入艺术和哲学的世界,是诗人一生的主要思想框架。像Stifter一样,Niliūnas使用互文替代和文化情节。很可能随着欧洲战争的爆发和稳定的崩溃,对于Niliūnas这位书籍鉴赏家来说,斯蒂夫特的小说对他个人来说是一个非常重要的发现,成为他世界观的支柱之一。这篇文章的作者得出结论,Niliūnas受到了Stifter小说概念层的影响——对本体论安全存在的旋转。
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