Life Should Be Transparent : Conversations about Lithuania and Europe in the Twentieth Century and Today.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (384 pages)
Cover -- Title page -- copyright page -- Contents -- Introduction: Engaging Memory and History -- Acknowledgements -- Conversation I: Life Should Be Transparent -- Conversation II: We Could All See That Lithuania was Trapped -- Conversation III: What Had Happened to the World? -- Conversation IV: To Forgive and Build the Future-These Are the Duties of the Living -- Conversation V: I Was Surrounded by Very Good People -- Conversation VI: I Needed a Change -- Conversation VII: I Saw My Work as a Kind of Mission -- Conversation VIII: The Theatre Suits My Interests and Temperament Perfectly -- Conversation IX: People Developed Close Relationshipswithin "Islands" -- Conversation X: Why Was Faust Redeemed, Even After Making a Pact with the Devil? -- Conversation XI: I Felt a Powerful Connection with My Spiritual Brothers -- Conversation XII: I Regret Nothing, But I Continue to Pay Dearly for My Decisions -- Conversation XIII: It Is Probably Only Possible to Feel a Part of History Once in One's Lifetime -- In Lieu of an Epilogue: More and More Questions, But Fewer and Fewer Answers -- Appendices: Voices from the Past -- Appendix I: What Questions Matter the Most to Me Now? -- High School Questionnaire -- Review: "Measured Optimism" -- Appendix II: Texts and Statements -- "Left Unsaid" -- "The Holocaust in My Life" -- "Does Litvak Culture Have a Future on Lithuanian Soil?" -- Appendix III: Letters -- Appendix IV: Post Scriptum -- "On Memory and Remembering" -- "An Important Meeting" -- "The Debate about Our People" -- Key Biographical Events -- Photos -- Index -- Back cover.