Open AccessOn the Importance of One Character: Some Afterthoughts on The Forest of Anykšcˇiai
Author(s) -
Paulius Vaidotas Subačius
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
textual cultures
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1933-7418
pISSN - 1559-2936
DOI - 10.14434/tc.v8i2.13279
Subject(s) - lithuanian , interpretation (philosophy) , character (mathematics) , context (archaeology) , autograph , literature , poetry , philosophy , history , art , classics , linguistics , archaeology , mathematics , geometry
The latest edition of Anykšcˇi˛u šilelis (The Forest of Anykšcˇiai) by famous Lithuanian poet Antanas Baranauskas renewed the old debate how understood the last word in the second line of the poem. The textual analysis of first three publications with the poet’s autographs and early copies does not provide any possibility to accept the conjecture suggested by one of editors in the early 1960s. This case is analyzed in the broader Lithuanian related and international context of links of alternative readings with strands of a literary interpretation.