Baltic prose in the 1990s: the emergence of "authentic historicism"
ENApproximately since 1988, memoir and documentary literature has become especially extensive in Lithuanian and Latvian literature: it becomes important for the authors to depict the things that are experienced, that are held in the consciousness but that were not possible to publish because of censorship. In addition to authentic memoirs, documentary novel becomes important at this time, as it recreates real facts and dramatic events. The plots are mainly related to the war and post-war experiences, the authors document their authentic experiences. The novels generalize the dramatic situation of a person: harmonious life destroyed by historical events, loss of home, family, social status, former functions, group identity, collective pride, experiences of massive killing, forced deportations, famine, reflections about the blurred boundary between the good and the bad, the feeling of identity crisis, loneliness and helplessness. Trauma is generalized as the most common personís experience in the 20th century.
