Laiškai : "rašau tik tai, kas yra mano gili vidinė būtinybė"

• Cymbalas, Jevgenijus, sudarymas, parengė [com, edt]
• Kotreliovas, Nikolajus, sudarymas, parengė [com, edt]
• Mikelaitis, Gediminas, sudarymas, parengė, redagavimas [com, edt, edt]
• Snežko, Julija, sudarymas, parengė [com, edt]

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Laiškai; Jurgis Baltrušaitis; Šaltiniai; Letters; Jurgis Baltrušaitis; Sources.

ENThe first exhaustive collection of letters by the poet, translator and diplomat Jurgis Baltrušaitis (1873-1944) compiled according to the scientific principles of text linguistics serves to significantly widen both the poet’s creative and biographical horizons and the opinions on his work established in the history of literature. The book contains letters in Lithuanian, Russian and Italian languages with Lithuanian translations and commentaries. [...] The letters of Jurgis Baltrušaitis are a useful source in discovering the connections between Lithuanian, Russian, Italian, Norwegian, and Swedish literature, theatre, translation and culture in general, in the first half of the twentieth century. In his letters Baltrušaitis liaisoned between the cultural worlds of these countries and attempted to transport the modem changes in Western literature -the phenomena in Italian and Scandinavian culture - to the Russian literary circles of the time, as well as to some Lithuanian writers. The letters serve to identify once more the collaboration of Baltrušaitis and some of the most famous writers of the time (Giovanni Papini, Giovanni Amendola, Valery Bryusov, O. Kampa). For example, Baltrušaitis was one of the first to promote the work of the famous English director and artist Gordon Craig not only in Moscow, but also in the artistic circles in Italy. The letters reveal Baltrušaitis’ role as a reformer of the theatre, promoter of theatrical experimentation and advisor. Such prominent directors like Vsevolod Meyerhold and Konstantin Stanislavsky applied many of his ideas on the revitalization of theatre: theatre as a new art for developing the personality; theatre as a temple; theatre as a spiritual community. Some letters to the theatre figures resemble short art criticism tracts on the programme of theatre rejuvenation. Baltrušaitis essentially formed the repertoire of translated works of drama in the main theatres of Moscow. [...].