Veidu į saulę
ENLiterature researcher Rimantas Skeivys writes about Jurgis Tornau (1919-2005), who in his expansive way was part of the recovery of the Lithuanian nation’s self-awareness, which had been exhausted by occupations and social change. This dynamic and creative personality, who was loyal to the truth, was able to resist the dictats and the constraints of totalitarian rule, and during the years of the Soviet Russian occupation laid the basis for modern Lithuanian culture, and cultivated fidelity to the national identity and the spiritual heritage. Jurgis Tornau’s footsteps in Lithuania are an assurance that lituanistic goals are equal to other cultural phenomena of the 20th century, the spread and encouragement of idealism, and loyalty to the people of the native land.
