Description: Interweaves Eastern European postwar history, dissidence, and literature to expand our understanding of the significance of this important Lithuanian writer.
Review Quotes: [An] undeniably rich and fascinating journey spanning Venclova's entire life and career, moving through a highly informative and wide swath of Lithuanian cultural and political history, and through a great deal of Soviet history as well. . . . Although much of it describes large-scale historical and cultural process, questions, and events, it is also a deeply personal work.-- "CANADIAN SLAVONIC PAPERS"