![]() ![]() However, a creative giddiness and desperate efforts to discover the truth bring suffering. He discards all his illusions and keeps his poetry to himself. Garšva as a cog in a huge machine is recklessly looking for self-actualisation. Garšva rejects love, ruptures human relationships, remains lonely in the cage of the elevator, but he still lives in the desire of hope fruition. This novel, along with many others, was banned during the Soviet times in Lithuania. ![]() ![]() His fragmented consciousness is haunted by homesickness, and sometimes images of women whom he loved. Although not translated to English, Balta Drobule or White Shroud is an important existentialist novel written in Lithuanian by Antanas Skema, a Lithuanian American. The 87th poet, Antanas Garšva, having no opportunity to vow to his creative work and achieve immortality of his soul, is forced to carry out a Sisyphean-like lift operator’s work in the biggest hotel in New York. He is wandering through his cracky memories in places of the interwar Kaunas, High Panemunė, and Vilnius. Number 87 takes down the elevator: up and down. This play is a dramatisation of the novel The White Shroud by exodus writer Antanas Škėma (1910-1961). ![]()
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