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ABOUT SILVA RERUM VILNIUS BASILISK NEWS OTHER TEXTS PRESS LINKS CONTACT | Interview: "Through history in high heels", "Moteris" magazine 2010 05 30 Kristina Sabaliauskaitė has found a perfect niche - an intellectual and sophisticated writer, devoid of banalities but capable of showing the depths of the contemporary human ambivalence and tensions, its traumas, moral and political dilemmas, was still a rarity in our literature. Intelligent faces of the people from the past instead of the deformed physiognomies, characters resonating with our contemporary sensitivity – the history in the novel is actualised and not presented like some souvenir. "K.Sabaliauskaitė and (her) popularity", Eugenija Valienė, kamane.lt "...The almighty narrator, letting nobody to break out of the control, chooses an interesting way of self-amusement: historical details in the novel are the means to cast an ironical glance to the historical consciousness, signified by these details. I want to return to the religious consciousness as the most evident component. It is easy to notice, that all elements of this religious-existential consciousness – the self-consciousness of memento mori, the gestures of self-humility and self-abasement in combination with limitless pride, the radical tension between human sins and the desire for salvation – in the novel are inlayed into ironical structures that debase the values..." Brigita Speičytė, "Literatūra ir menas", 2009 11 27 Interview: "Two hours with Kristina Sabaliauskaite", Inga Norke, Pravda, September 2009 "...Yes, it is capturing, engulfing, feeding on hundreds of sources, reminiscent of the ornate Baroque architecture. Yes, it is in a very good taste and style. Pungent, rich, dense. Full of aromas - a bouquet. Like a cognac, well matured in oak barrels. [...] This move, this novel - one of the best departures not just in our literature, but also a remarkable shift on the consciousness level." Erika Drungytė, "Nemunas", 2009 09 07 "...If they only knew about this book, Dan Brown and John Irwing would be terribly jealous. And Adam Mickiewicz would applaud. The book of the year - no, rather of the decade!" Emilija Visockaitė, Pravda.lt "...This novel explores the main personal human experience dramas rethinking them in Cartesian dualism. The characters choose between the body and the soul, the word and the thing, the human and the animal, the life and the death. The personal attitudes of the characters reveal universal things..." Nerijus Brazauskas, "Metai", 2009 No. 4. "... In this book - some of the best erotic scenes ever written in Lithuanian..." Justinas Žilinskas, Skaityta.lt, 2009 03 21 "...It is difficult to compare this novel to anything in Lithuanian literature - it seems unique and quite unlike others. The comparison with Marguerite Yourcenar's L'Oeuvre au noir is tempting, but this is the text of a different kind [...]. The time flows with the sentences like the expressive periods of speech, they violently engulf the reader, but still retain their logical segments and sometimes are illuminated with a subtle humour, which not only perfectly befits the structure of the story and the portraits of the characters, but also tranforms a seemingly banal situation into a tragicomical one. And to know, how to laugh and cry at the same time - it is already an achievement..." "A never ending forest of things", Renata Šerelytė, "Šiaurės Atėnai", 2009 03 20 Interview: "The magical Baroque", Emilija Visockaitė, "Šiaurės Atėnai", 2009 03 13 "... It is the event in our literature... slightly reminiscent of Umberto Eco, it reveals the glimpse of multiple layers of spiritual history..." "Like a Baroque tapestry..." Astrida Petraitytė, "Literatūra ir menas", 2009 03 06 Interview: "Author's focus - on Vilnius' past and Lithuanian London", Zita Čepaitė, "Infozona", 2009 03 06 "...The novel in its construction reminds the Dutch peep-show box, described by the author: “the painted Dutch box with mirrors inside and several peep-holes in its walls, looking through which a miraculous, life-like and always different view of the hunters in the winter forest would open”. […] She writes masterfully. Reading the novel you feel the narrator mysteriously disappear, just like in some Dutch paintings so favoured by Sabaliauskaitė: when you look at them and wonder if the painter is inside or beside the painting? […] Those, who will step into the forest – will be drawn in and intoxicated..."Vidas Dusevičius, "Kultūrpolis", 2009 02 25 "... The characters and the atmosphere are drawn tastefully and with the art historian's emphasis on aesthetic details, the storyline is solidly built, the intrigue is maintained, and one can hardly stop oneself reading..." Giedrė Kazlauskaitė, "Verslo žinios", 2009 02 20. "...Probably the best historical novel of recent years..." Paulius Volverstas, "Naujasis židinys-Aidai", 2009 Nr. 1-2. "...I would like "Silva Rerum" to become a film...", theatre director Gintaras Varnas, Kultūra, Alfa.lt, 2009 02 14 "... I praise this historical novel for it performs a small miracle. I believe, that many of you are familiar with a feeling, when you see the remains of the past in museums and you simply cannot imagine those shrunken and fragile relics of the past belonging to real, alive people. But some novels and some films do miracles - when you read or watch them, all remnants of the past suddenly make an entity and become alive..." Jurga Vaičiūnaitė, "15 min", 2009 02 10 "...The appeal of “Silva Rerum” is that it does not depict seventeenth-century nobles neither as heroes, neither as fools. Nor – saints." Renata Baltrušaitytė, “In the crossroads of a historical novel”, “Veidas”, 2009 01 19 "… A lively mosaic in pearls of the memory presented on a completely new page of the 21st century Lithuanian literature. An exciting transportation to the Lithuanian past – and not only for an erudite historian, philologist or art historian, but for anyone with an interest in our history. One-page-long billowing sentences, carved like marble monuments are justified by their meaning and content, they mobilise and captivate attention to everything that the author desires to tell. Quite credible, that the readers will not want to part with the Narwoysz family." Janina Survilaitė, “Meaningful hours in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania”, Bernardinai.lt, 2009 01 12 TV Interview: "Culture News", LTV2, 2008 12 28, 6:50 "…Reading this novel could be compared to wandering inside of St.Peter and Paul’s Church in Vilnius, or looking at the Baroque monstrance, decorated with precious stones and made of various, big and small, complicated things, that are interesting to look at. And the impression leaves you with something of a fairy-tale, is enchanting and at the same time distressing, mysterious; it affects human emotions and impels you into reflections on life, death, beauty and ugliness, nobleness and the lowest desires. Everything that the Baroque is, is in this book. This book gives you sensual, intelectual and cognitive pleasure. It is written in many levels you can move through. But I was left surprised with the book’s ending. Surprised in a way, that only the Baroque can surprise – when you look at the image and suddenly realise, that it is much more than you thought." - Historian Dr. Irena Vaišvilaitė, author of “Beginning of the Baroque in Lithuania”, "“Lrytas.lt”, 2008 12 11, "The pleasure of touching the seventeenth century - in K. Sabaliauskaitės historical novel"
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