TY - JOUR AU - Menčenkovas, Žygimantas PY - 2020/01/16 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The vector of Leonidas Donskis: option between homeland and conscience JF - Darbai ir Dienos / Deeds and Days JA - DiD VL - IS - 72 SE - MONOGRAPHS DO - 10.7220/2335-8769.72.10 UR - https://ejournals.vdu.lt/index.php/DiD/article/view/972 SP - 149-158 AB - <p>The article discusses the situation of a writer who being a member of society is going through a drama in which he must choose between his homeland and his conscience. The article reviews the situation as envisaged by Leonidas Donskis and presents a model. The main focus is on the fourth form of a writer’s relationship with society, i.e., the necessity to choose. A writer feels alienated from society. A dysfunctional relationship is formed which gives rise to the structure of the concept of alienation. Finally, the discussion turns to a few examples of alienation from society and homeland in the biographies of Witold Gombrowicz and Czesław Miłosz.</p> ER -