A game of chance you’re bound to lose. Vilnius Poker by Ričardas Gavelis
Mikko Toivanen2021.05.01 10:00
A plaque for Ričardas Gavelis in Literatų Street / R. Dambarvaitė
LRT English presents a series of articles about seminal works by Lithuanian authors – all of them are available in English.
Vilnius Poker by Ričardas Gavelis
(Open Letter Books, 2009; transl. by Elisabeth Novickas)
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It has taken this long for this series to land on Ričardas Gavelis’s Vilnius Poker (Vilniaus Pokeris, originally published in 1989), perhaps the most famous of modern Lithuanian novels, not because of a lack of things to say about it, but really the exact opposite: not quite knowing where to start or how to go about the task.