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Y. LANDSBERGYTE-BECHER

RECONCEPTUALISATION OF LITHUANIAN NATIONAL IDENTITY BEFORE THE ROMANTICISM PERIOD IN K. SABALIAUSKAITE’S SILVA RERUM

Lithuanian literature has to reconsider the concept of national identity regarding history, which was enriched with the established structure of the Statehood. One of the most famous writers is Dr Kristina Sabaliauskaitė (born 1974), an art historian, cultural researcher and writer, who managed to rediscover the concept of Lithuanian mentality and concentrated on the lives and work of Lithuanian nobility. Family histories of the nobles of the XVIII century are described in her four books Silva rerum I-IV (lat. Forest of Things) in a literary style which fascinates contemporary society. She adopts a flamboyant but genteel classical style, which becomes very relevant after the emptiness left by postmodernism and post- romanticism, after frustration with humanity and ideas of Enlightenment. Particularly, it relates to the Baltic states with their experience of historical injustice and enforced ideologies by numerous occupations. K. Sabaliauskaitė’s Silva rerum (written in 2008-2016) leads to a reformation of the concept of Lithuanian identity, and her turn from romantic ethnocentrism to baroque has enriched the versatility of European culture. Key words: nationality, identity, baroque, statehood, reconceptualise.

Statehood in historical context. Lithuanian be free, emigrated to the Western world. Others, who national identity is conceptualised by raising ideas of remained, mysteriously died during the decades of the romanticism (freedom, great past, old castles, Vilnius long-lasting occupation in the late XX century. These baroque), which led to the national movement in liter- events stigmatised the concept of national identity ature, music and political history in the second half of and shifted it towards ethnocentrism or catastrophic the XIX century. The mentality of the oldest European modernism. language is the most important issue for Lithuanian The forgotten alternative for national romanticism self and fundamental for the origin of nationality. The was hidden behind Christianity, the phenomenon of Lithuanian language was banned (1864-1904) in Tsa- Pagan avant-garde. National identity was suddenly rist Russia after the Uprising for freedom in the former brightened with this description and a «Lithuanisation Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1863. After 40 of the world» (Geda, Andrijauskas, 2010). It is based years of a press ban, the Lithuanian language acquired on the works by Sigitas Geda (1943–2008), the most and preserved very important and almost sacred val- important Lithuanian poet, who remained uncompro- ues, contributing to contemporary Lithuanian identity. mised by the Soviet ideology, and he heavily influ- In the first half of the XX century, the Lithuanian self enced the contemporary composer B. Kutavičius was based on the defence of the Lithuanian language (1932) to create the phenomenon of processual dra- and the resurrection of statehood. It was affected by maturgy, where the music is motivated by the cultural relations with Poland, especially after Poland occu- movement for freedom («Last Pagan Rites», 1978), pied Vilnius, the historical capital of Lithuania, which which led to political changes in time [10, p. 71]. was the symbol of long-lasting statehood. It filled the Here the actual alternative archetypes of Europe- pre-war Lithuanian mentality with a strong emotion- an Lithuanian identity emerge in contemporary litera- al rage against Poland, concentrated on the political ture as the statehood symbols of the Republic of Two problem of the state, how to safeguard Vilnius, and Nations (Lithuanian and Poland Union, 1, p. 450) set aside the obvious danger from Russia before it was based on Christianity. Nowadays it is very important too late. Progressive ideas of national romanticism to reconsider and reconceptualise the ethnocentris- were confused, misled and torn apart by the Soviet tic point of view—the basis for the national identity. occupation. Many literary artists became lost in an This significant alternative to the literary archetype of historical sense because of the compromise which national romanticism was uncovered by a contempo- betrayed their State («bringing in the sun of Stalin»). rary Lithuanian writer and art historian, doctor Kristi- The expression the wrong light became a long-last- na Sabaliauskaitė (1974). Her stories are related most- ing metaphor of eternal darkness. Some, who chose to ly to Vilnius and narrated in the style of baroque with Сучасні літературознавчі студії. 124 Випуск 15. 2018 rich and multifaceted language. They are exceptional ly referred as Rzeczpospolita in the sense of cultural because of their deep immersion in the past, using spe- history. Dr Sabaliauskaitė researched real documents cial old-fashioned rhetoric, analogies to the baroque from that era in the archives of Krakòw, Warsaw and as an example of musical polyphony, filled with Vilnius, notably in the family books where governing monologic-style reconsiderations and refrains-ritor- nobles registered data about their personal lives and nellos of memory. Her four books, named Silva rerum educational achievements. The statesmen possibly (I-IV), are about the history of noble families of Lith- could not speak Lithuanian at all or could use it in a uania. These writings opened unresearched sources of very limited sense because the official language was the Lithuanian identity, penetrating deep into family Polish and Latin, the latter of which was used in doc- stories of the golden pre-romantic age and personal uments and as a church language. The importance of matters of the nobles, who sought active education. the national language inspired a national movement Here the language of «the great soul of Europe» [3, in romanticism; it was integrated into Lithuanian p. 5] looks for the roots of Jesuit and Lithuanian roy- self-awareness in the early part of the XX century. The alty. This forgotten pre-romanticism, rich with mys- loss occurred, when baroque and Lithuanian-Polish teries, is tightly connected to Vilnius baroque archi- nobles were excluded from the national identity, and tecture. Kristina Sabaliauskaitė’s Silva rerum (I-IV) the harm was realised only in present times. The ques- unexpectedly opens treasures of Polish-Lithuanian tion of the identity of Lithuanian statehood, reaching relations, and matters which are important to Lithu- back into the past two centuries and the Union with anian statehood and Lithuanian identity. With these Poland, is a very important part of rediscovered Lith- books she presents herself as a researcher, looking for uanian contemporary political identity [5, p. 84]. the great ages of royal souls and their connections to Dr K. Sabaliauskaitė’s books have opened deeply Europe. hidden treasures of the Lithuanian soul, longing for Baroque and Lithuanian identity in music. ancient times more related to Europe than romanti- These published books became very popular in cism itself. Composer A. Martinaitis searches for a Poland, Latvia and other countries, which could feel renaissance in Palestrina’s choir music with his «Can- Lithuanian history. It is a great source for transforma- tus ad Futurum» (1982) and «Cantus Relictus Viln- tion, especially in music. Lithuanian composers cre- ensis» (2015). His «Messenger from Heaven» (2014) ated music, which returned to a baroque style aiming and Sabaliauskaitė reopen a source of forgotten sim- to reach the space of eternal structures. Several con- ilar literary connections to European cultural centres. temporary composers, such as Algirdas Martinaitis This structural road of Lithuanian music is very con- (1950), Onutė Narbutaitė (1956), Vidmantas Bartulis nected with images of Vilnius, which excited Lithu- (1954), Mindaugas Urbaitis (1952) can be mentioned anian creators of all times–from national romanti- here, who explored the polyphony of baroque and cism (Maironis, 1882-1932) to the contemporary era, «eternal melody» [17, p. 132] as an infinite return of filled with ideas existential to modern Lithuanians: the great soul of Europe, a saviour of peace and axis O. Narbutaitė’s (1956) «Centones Meae Urbi», 1998, of time in contemporary romanticism, which is «torn V. Barkauskas’s (1931) «Gloria Urbi», 1975, A. Mar- apart» to cells and pieces after the times of modern- tinaitis’s (1950) «Cantus Relictus Vilnensis», 2015, ism and postmodernism. The idea of the paradigm of B. Kutavičius’s (1932) «Epithaphium Temporum Per- baroque after the postmodern age in music becomes enti», 1998, etc. evident to Narbutaitė, who can convey how to use the Contemporary «baroque» in literature. It «eternal melody», which can be compared to the style is represented by K. Sabaliauskaitė’s Silva rerum. of baroque from the eternal past». So does Martinaitis, Not just the content, but an exceptional literary who tries to integrate the Baltic self and archetypes of style makes reading feel like diving into the rhetor- identity as the primaeval voices of birds and rhythms ical polyphony of baroque and rhythms of develop- as continuous steps of the gruelling dark ages. The ing lines of thoughts and memory roads, which can contemporary writer Sabaliauskaitė in her creative be conscious or unconscious. It can be compared to work echoes the background of such music as «the browsing through the old treasure chest when reflec- archaeology of minds», memories of life and educa- tive thoughts reach all the secret corners, dreams and tional issues of the great statehood leaders, exploring memories. These baroque lines, which are interrupted the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, known as and connected again in the original literary style, are the Republic of the Two Nations, which is common- almost visual and are as believable as the architecture Landsbergyte-Becher Y. RECONCEPTUALISATION OF LITHUANIAN NATIONAL IDENTITY BEFORE THE ROMANTICISM PERIOD IN K. SABALIAUSKAITE’S SILVA RERUM 125 of Vilnius and the musical as the polyphony of the spaces, origins of statehood and issues of the human baroque, leading to blocked areas of the unexplored soul, including Christianity. Jesuits dominated edu- soul of Lithuanian identity. Renewed cultural signs cational structures and European connections in aris- filled Silva rerum, the refreshing life of Lithuanian tocratic life in many different ways [14, p. 103]. It self, which now was more adapted for XIX century is a pivotal compilation with a strong idea, giving a problems because of the diversity and necessity for good opportunity and an alternative to previous occu- tolerance, democracy, freedom and its special space in pations which emptied, tore apart and disappointed the world. Sabaliauskaitė awards this literary ritornel- more recent ages of romanticism, re-established the lo with the touch of eternal sunset and dawn of state- concept of national identity as an old treasure with hood, the nostalgia for getting lost, and the lack of traces reaching into the times of Enlightenment in the honesty, greatness and magnificence of the universe. Republic of Two Nations, even in its «sunset» years. The soul of the Republic, which constantly loses the The longing for all this was extraordinarily deep, hid- image of a progressive State, is transferred to the den like an unspoken new Lithuanian identity, reopen- future–romanticism of the arriving XIX century. ing psychological space for awakened impulses, cries Music as a structural field. The first level−the and signs of forgotten humanity in a Christian soul. space, connecting all verbal lines of thoughts, extends Prayers, cries and fascination with memories into the universe of memories, unravelling exception- refilled «the void» of postmodernism. This special al culture and embracing lives exclusively dedicated postcolonial emptiness can be interpreted, completed to statehood. There is the completer appearance of with rich Baroque images and its sources, which reach traces of this magnificent statehood and its vulnerabil- behind romanticism, penetrating the minds of the late ity as well. The «music» of memories in Silva rerum XVIII century. They are Christians, educated Jesuits, turns around the centre of statehood in ritornello with who actually ruled Lithuania in the XVI century and all its complexity about spiritual treasures of the past established it as a highly meaningful European State, ages, still unknown aspects, and possibly taking the in the end adopting the democratic Constitution of 3 prospective line towards the future. May, 1791, the second one in the world, soon after Here Sabaliauskaitė touches the living artery of the signing of the Constitution of the United States Lithuanian mentality, which still bleeds and becomes in 1787 [6, p. 132]. These values, which Lithuania aware of the self-establishment. There is a presenta- fights for even now, and which were lost later during tion of multicultural symbols, symbiosis, gestures, the following century, gradually came back with the impulses, breaks, sighs and prayers, which precious new evaluation. The conception of Lithuanian identi- rhetoric calls for forgiveness. The first level of lan- ty by contemporary writers looks very intensely into guage is filled with the emptiness of late XX century this issue as an obvious source for particular exam- postmodernism with archetypes and images from the ples of how to rebuild Lithuania as a European State, XVIII century, with the language of history, speaking and it can be comparable to Vilnius architecture and about a sunset of magnificent ages of the Republic of Christian existential idealism with the «call from the Two Nations [12, p. 446]. It is located behind roman- depths» to Resurrection. Silva rerum makes this road ticism, and it is more structural in the musical field refreshing in a modern way and is magnificent in its and in architecture to avoid vulnerability. historical approach. Reconceptualisation of identity using features K. Sabaliauskaitė in Silva rerum IV writes: «Their of old Lithuanian statehood. There are three most dining was interrupted by a shaky sound of a chair important aspects of contemporary Lithuanian iden- pulled away−someone drunk, dressed in a coat of tity, which is revived in Silva rerum. The first aspect Russian officer stood up from a neighbouring table, is the visual baroque and images of Vilnius architec- “Be quiet! Line up, attention ... to all ... let’s raise the ture as the magnificence of the state. The second one toast for Mother Tsarina of all Russia! Vivat, let her is the eternal structures of musical rhetoric, which live forever!” and Misevičius waved his hand with are expressed in rhythms and ritornellos of baroque, bitterness−here they were, worthless liberators of the old-fashioned figures of speech, streaming into each dissidents; he put all contempt, as much as he had, in other, filling up the memories and central points of his proud Lithuanian soul, into the word “liberators”; existence, leading to the complex contemporary men- liberators who forgot to leave ... even now, six years tality. The third one is the psychological agenda of after the Radom Confederation. <...> But you know, awakened archetypes, describing great dimensional dear Norvaiša, what is the most disgusting thing here? Сучасні літературознавчі студії. 126 Випуск 15. 2018

These are our times, this Satan-led havoc <…> King cation; it is introduced and absorbed in statehood Stanislaw also holds to this principle, and what has issues and searches in the «archaeology of soul». This happened now to his noble tolerance? Russia carved literary style of character of statehood, as rich as a us a wedge out of the faith of dissidents, which personal life, improves more and more with images of crushes our state; look how all the bright ideas of the fascinating old rhetoric, which is very different from past of ours became desecrated in front of our eyes the ordinary Lithuanian literary discourse of contem- and our tolerant king, because of such tolerance, is porary language, and is identical to the language of now raped by this armed despotic woman, who this old noble Lithuanians with their longing for great, renegade Voltaire glorifies for just the handful of universal, transcendental and everlasting structures. gold, it is easy for him sitting far away in France, to This structural link is seized by Sabaliauskaitė in blab about the “Empress of Light”, he would better her Silva rerum as «a great soul of Europe» [3, p. 5], look more closely at how crippled and mad peasants and extends far away from modernism and catastroph- are, who flee to us from such a Russia, who lost their ic romanticism, overwhelmed by individual exis- minds from poverty. However, you do not need to go tentialism, though it still encounters romanticism in that far looking for a sitting duck, you do not need some open insights, where thoughts regressively fall Voltaire−look, my friend, even in this inn you’ll spot down towards their finale. The feeling of the passing cowards and half-deranged, who will stand up for times and their restoration, refills history as a space a free drink to drink to the health of the spread-out of termination and continuum in the completeness of whore...» [11, p. 84]. language–without breaks and final points like perpet- Jesuit education and European links. The sec- ual breathing in your mind, being aware of your own ond level of Silva rerum is the education and political soul, your unconscious personal background. «behaviour» of the nobles with a European identity, Thursday’s dinner was seen as being worthy to be who developed trusted links to Western Europe. Jesu- illuminated by the monarch Stanislaw August Ponia- its established the educational system in Lithuania; towski: the feast of Apollo, Olympus of thought, with Vilnius University was founded by Jesuits in 1569, the invitees−Homer, Ovidius, Plato and Aristotle, Fiji at first as a Jesuit Academy (College), which later and Praxiteles of that epoch. Unfortunately, right in its became the University. It was a reaction to the Protes- middle, footman unexpectedly brought a letter with- tant Reformation by Luther, its adequate success and out plums: in confusion, he whispered a few urgent influence in Lithuania (Vilnius Lutheran Church was words into the royal ear: without delay ... Stackelberg founded in 1555). The Jesuits’ «answer» to Lutherans ... the new Russian ambassador Otto von Stackelberg was precisely education and the rationality of cultural <…> it appeared to be one of the favourite entertain- influence. In Silva rerum readers are constantly tak- ments of this ambassador, who had become a joint en by the sharp and clever intellect of the system of usurper, suddenly destroy it, interrupting one of a few Jesuit education and impressed by their greatly val- royal pleasures, which were left for his majesty Stan- ued European connections with Paris, London, Rome islaw Augustus Poniatowski,−his favourite Thursday and Amsterdam, and even their criticism. All paths to dinner. European education were open and welcoming, like Leaving Lazienki earlier than expected, Tyzen- structures of Enlightenment, empowering the tower- hauz asked Pranciškus Ksaveras as if stating, how he ing statehood [2, p. 50]. liked his majesty, or whether or not it is true that he The great finale of the aristocracy. The great- was great and educated ruler we had not have before, ness of the baroque reopens footprints of regal Italian so at last we were governed by the Apollonian Sun; families with Lithuania. The literary instincts in Silva Francis Xavier Norvaiša, without contradiction, nod- rerum get closer to special provisions of the stories ded and confirmed in common phrases; and silently, of the royal families, recognising magnificent links of completely silently, just for himself, he thought that unlimited existential powers and movements of scien- this person, he had seen earlier today, would certainly tific ideas of Enlightenment. be a great minister of arts and science; his majesty Such a verbal genre goes in circles about the his- Stanislaw Augustus, born in January, under a chang- tory of statehood without approaching personal exis- ing and deceptive planet of Saturn, did not reach the tentialism and the emotional culmination of roman- brightness of the sun in his shine; even if he could ticism, in extremely basic rhythms of the structural be called the sun in the constellation of magnan- fundamentals of the past, regarding culture and edu- imous rulers of the Commonwealth of two nations, Landsbergyte-Becher Y. 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Pranciškus Ksaveras thought silently, that today they The values of old democracy should be reopened all saw his partial eclipse with their own eyes: a men- for the non-archaic and non-romantic return of the acing shadow of Stackelberg and Russia seemed to national self, thriving in the style of baroque, full of have dined with them [11, p. 249]. operative powers of statehood structures and a new This perpetual memory, breathing in one’s strategy [9, p. 25]. thoughts, is like the eternal poetry of a new literary The contemporary discourse and aristocracy. style. This style is really envisaged more as a qua- XX century Marxism and radicalism excluded aris- si-baroque; it is possible to describe it to be more tocracy from the discourse of modern society, but essential to the Lithuanian character than romanticism nowadays it is incredibly important to let aristocracy itself. It implants «baroque» as an eternal structure in return as a founder of statehood. Here a special Lithu- contemporary Lithuanian music and into the compos- anian–Polish royal aristocratic identity opens up. This ers’ minds: Narbutaitė, Bartulis, Urbaitis, Martinaitis, once excluded aristocratic soul of the XX century and others besides called themselves the «new roman- makes a comeback in such literary manner (in Silva tics». Pre-romanticism has an incomparable value for rerum) which is surprisingly important and actual to contemporary Lithuanian identity as the background a contemporary Lithuanian political discourse, and of remaining structures, supporting the changing continuously proceeds to postmodernism. Games, times, obvious in the example of K. Sabaliauskaitė’s media and hybridised battles on the internet rip the Silva rerum. The important turn here is the political soul of great old aristocracy apart because it has never «solar eclipse» and an attempt to embrace the sleeping rejected feelings of bravery, honesty, democracy and époques. It returns from romanticism to contemporary tolerance. And so, Silva rerum hands back this power, scenery, regarding democracy and Enlightenment and extracting it from the «baroque»–architectural–musi- military power as the important source of statehood, cal structure of the XVII-XVIII centuries, deeply bur- involved in the genealogy of the nobles [7, p. 23]. ied in literary archives, when the soul was still open The Politics. The metaphor of solar eclipse. and full of matters and values of a stately life and was This precious «non-romantic» style, based more on not praying for survival under the rule of barbarians. history, opened a new front of politics in literary writ- The sources of Crown and Republic expose these ings, which cannot be easily hybridised and forgotten, times in values, still existing of architecture, archives could be useful for political healing, and expose what of visual arts, the universe of culture, which cannot literature can do more in symbiosis with politics. The be simply destroyed by foreign military forces and change of concept of ethnocentrism into Europeanism always presents the dimension of idealism. became apparent [15, p. 179]. Lithuanian identity must be rediscovered from Then the importance of the Republic of the Two various points of view in the deep intelligence of Nations has to be recognised as a new account in history. history [13, p. 11]. This road of a reopened historical Reconceptualisation of the spiritual paradigm of Lithua- concept appeared in the literary work as a paradigm in nian identity is based on the experience of «crossroads» Lithuanian literature, music, history, culture [16, p. 33], of progressive and regressive Europe [8, p. 48, 5, p. 67]. and as a new concept of global Lithuania. It is a tiny line, often falsely marked and constant- Conclusions ly exposed, considered a danger to the Lithuanian Kristina Sabaliauskaitė’s books encourage a recon- State, like the road between baroque and barbarians ceptualization of the old aristocracy, which remained without the space for the defence line. The last point is active in the «network» of Lithuanian statehood. a metaphor created by watching the phenomenon of a Vilnius, its people, architecture, special relations to «black sun» or solar eclipse, used to describe «the King other nations (Jews, Karaims, Tatars, Italians, French, of Enlightenment»−Stanislaw August Poniatowski, in etc.), their culture, religion and way of life reveal the Silva rerum. The future for Lithuania was to become one great lines of tolerance and empathy, democracy and of European States or to be eliminated from the map of patience, and honesty during the critical times. Europe. This paradigm follows the Lithuanian mentality In Sabaliauskaitė’s literary style a special value is and literary traditions into the XXI century [8, p. 57]. the ability to maintain the old-fashioned aspect, which As in music, where minimalism is enriched is controversial in modern ages and can be described with bird songs, ritornellos and multiple ornamental as an eternal breathing of times in the form of very ways, literature returns to the rhetoric of historical long uninterrupted sentences as well as a return to baroque and the figuration of lines in the research. the epic verbalisation in a reader’s mind, a Homeric Сучасні літературознавчі студії. 128 Випуск 15. 2018 effort to explore the eternal memory of the state like in modern society (like «rezaliansas» stands for mar- «turning points of the world». riage), which are found only in old works, preserved This old-fashioned arch-cathedral solitude and in archives, even «wrong» letters (muzulmonė instead yearning for golden times is indeed a very contem- of musulmonė), as if the writer is not just talking, but porary and mental effort by Eastern Europeans «to is stuck in the past for real, appearing funny and prim- embrace the world». The Lithuanian writer Kristina itive, although inspiring. Sabaliauskaitė made this attempt in an excellent liter- This concept exposes the old archetypical strat- ary and politically symbiosis, in the very Lithuanian egy of «being Lithuanian» with a desire for eternal style of «mirroring the soul of Europe». This style is continuity to create one’s own better world. There is not an unconscious «daydream», but on the contrary, always a dark side, the lack of strong relations among is a factology of mainstream memories of enlight- the family members and loneliness, even among the ened statehood of the majestic past, leading from the great active people, which makes them desperate and secrets of a powerful past towards the future. weakened. The algorithm of Sabaliauskaitė’s literary This balance between right and wrong in the style is based on a constant return to memories of reconceptualisation of Lithuanian identity leads to Statehood. the image of patriarchal-matriarchal diversity toward 1. The breathing of eternity. romanticism. It is a good old-fashioned style versus 2. The principle of unlimited syntax. the hybrid of contemporary postmodernism, a trust- 3. Peculiarities of the old-fashioned verbosity, ful and embracing baroque, which opposes modernity which appear when using some words unknown to and creates a powerful dimension in literature.

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Ю. ЛАНДСБЕРҐІТЄ-БЕХЕР

ПЕРЕОСМИСЛЕННЯ ЛИТОВСЬКОЇ НАЦІОНАЛЬНОЇ ІДЕНТИЧНОСТІ ДО ЕПОХИ РОМАНТИЗМУ У РОМАНІ КРІСТІНИ САБАЛЯУСКАЙТЕ «СИЛЬВА РЕРУМ»

Литовська література заново відкриває поняття національної ідентичності через огляд століть, коли дер- жавність була у єдності з європейською культурою. Відома сучасна письменниця, доктор мистецтвознавства Крістіна Сабаляускайтє (н. 1974 р.) у своїх книгах розкриває «археологію» таємниць життя і діяльності шля- хетних дворян і духовенства Литви. Чотири книги «Сільва рерум» І-ІV (лат. Ліс речей, так звана книга сім‘ї дворян Литви) демонструють старовинний, ніби «старомодний» стиль літературної мови і в той же час фор- мують новий погляд на історію Литви як історію держави дворян, яка щільно пов‘язана з державністю, що суттєве змінює етноцентричне поняття держави Литви, що набрало чинності у ХХ столітті. Старовинна універсальність та проектування різнокультурного гуманізму є особливо співзвучним з ідеями Просвіти у пусте- лі постмодернізму та розчарувань постромантізму. Для Балтійських країн це дуже цінний літературний шлях, відкритий літературою після їх болісного історичного досвіду нищення прав людини та народу. Роман К. Саба- ляускайтє Сільва рерум, написаний у 2008-2016 рр., перетворює литовську ідентичність, замість романтичного етноцентризму відкриває бароко як зріле розуміння багатства універсальності європейської культури. Ключoві слова: національність, ідентичність, бароко, державність, відтворення (реконструкція).