Sex, Lithuanian Style

Of course, there is no such thing as “Lithuanian style” in sex. Rather, the words “Lithuanian style” in the title of the present collection refer to the (literary) ways in which sexual practices and sexualities are imagined and represented by the Lithuanian authors.
It has never been considered a matter of good taste to glean titbits from a text, while skipping all the rest. For the present collection we have done just that. Why?
The variety of imagined settings notwithstanding – from Hitler’s Germany to contemporary Chicago and beyond – the texts gathered in this collection reveal certain similarities as to the ways the sex(ualities) is (are) staged here. One such rather striking characteristic is that sex is never dealt with as a mundane-everyday sort of matter. These Lithuanian writers take sex extremely seriously – which does not exclude humour or grotesque.

Authors: Neringa Abrutytė, Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė, Ričardas Gavelis, Dalia Jazukevičiūtė, Birutė Jonuškaitė , Vaida Marija Knabikaitė, Saulius Tomas Kondrotas, Herkus Kunčius, Jaroslavas Melnikas, Sigitas Parulskis, Rolandas Rastauskas, Tomas Staniulis, Agnė Žagrakalytė
Translated by: Jūra Avižienis, Kerry Shawn Keys, Elizabeth Novickas, Edgaras Platelis, Darius James Ross, Laima Sruoginis, Jayde Will
Illustrations by Danas Bereznickas