The first section, entitled “From the Notes of Antanas Garšva,” is his first-person account of life as a poet in Lithuania before and partly during World War II. " Antanas Škėma is an author Lithuanian readers either love or hate."Įach chapter of the book, with the exception of the prologue and the epilogue, is divided into two separate sections, which the reader needs to slowly piece together to understand what happens in the life of the main character, Antanas Garšva. The narrative of the novel is by no means less dramatic than the author’s life and is presented in an engaging two-fold format. Balta Drobulė ( The White Cloth), first published in 1958, was written during Škėma‘s exodus in Western Europe and the United States, where the author lived for more than a decade until his abrupt death in a car crash in 1961.
Modernist novels, on the other hand, tend to reject these conventions, dwell on existential questions, and shift between first-person self-analysis and surreal elements.
He is one of the most prominent writers of Lithuanian modernism and is often a breath of fresh air for high school students, coming after novels and novels of Lithuanian realism, which typically have rural settings, describe harsh realities, and portray characters who are continuously dependent on their environments. Antanas Škėma is an author Lithuanian readers either love or hate.
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