Литовские рефлексии Генри Парланда

Abstract

This article presents Henry Parland's works uniting Finland, Sweden and Lithuania. Baltic and Scandinavian contexts merge in Parland’s personality. The writer is a famous modernist, who made a huge impact not only on the Finnish Swedes, but also Lithuanian literature and culture as a literary historian, critic, writer, journalist, cultural anthropologist and reviewer. Parland’s multigenre and multicontextual works contribute to Lithuanian literature, especially to the creation of image of modernism, Keturvejininkai and Treciafrontininkai, understanding of the cultural development in the inter-war Europe and Lithuania, determination of the ties between the Finnish Swedes and Lithuania. Parland’s texts reveal the opportunities of the Scandinavian and Baltic intercultural communication, literary similarities and differences that help to understand the evolution and influences of modernism.