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the fearlessness of death, which were values he himself upheld. Because of his time as a partisan, many of his works include describing the life of living with partisans – hiding in bunkers and forests, the death of close friends and family, and most importantly – leaving the last bullet to yourself. Some of his works are characterized by religion as in multiple poems he mentions the wrath of god, describing also that through pain and death one can achieve peace and come to god. His satires included elements of grotesque and absurdism, and in them he chooses to mock the Soviet government and reveal the truth of its occupation, propaganda, and cruelty, also ironizing the supposed "allies" of the Soviet Union.
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Krivickas's first poem from the partisan period is dated 1945. At first, his works, which were poems, sonnets, and satires, were only spread by word of mouth or transcripts among the partisans or their supporters. His work was characterized by the promotion of classical values, as well as heroism and
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In February 1945, he joined the partisan movement in the same outskirts in which two of his brothers also were active. In the same year, his brother Juozas was killed and their parents were driven out from their homes with the homestead burned. From 1947 to 1948, Krivickas would stay in bunkers, such
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Krivickas compared the partisan struggle for freedom with the Israelite fight for the promised land and various other heroic medieval tales. In such context, however, Krivickas realizes that there is very little hope, and embraces a stoic mindset in his poems, which are now one of his most famous
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At the time of studying, he established himself as a critic, novelist, and dramaturg. Krivickas upheld the strict aesthetic qualities of his critical literature throughout his literary career. Krivickas's short stories are characterized by psychologically resilient characters and philosophical
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in 1945 and participated in their activities as a communicator, being dubbed by fellow partisans as "the professor" until his death in 1952 when he was found hiding in a bunker and subsequently executed. Krivickas and his works were one of the main voices of anti-Soviet resistance.
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On 21 September 1952, not being able to resist interrogation, the area commander Jonas Kimštas was forced to reveal the location of the eastern headquarters. About a thousand soldiers surrounded the forest of
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Under fear of his wife being persecuted, Krivickas moved to the partisans in Biržai. This period was the most creatively productive for him, as he notably translated 80 of
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in whose conventions Krivickas met many Lithuanian writers. Krivickas also was a part of the theatre seminar headed by the writer
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In 1998, he was recognized as a war volunteer, was given the rank of captain, and was awarded the Commander's Grand Cross of the
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undertones. His poetry mainly focused on a person's relationship with existence, the world, and death.
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at the faculty of theology and philosophy, specifically Lithuanian and French language and literature.
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in Biržai, in which he read his works in social literary evenings and once even won the prize of 30
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In 1953, the last remaining partisan brother, Jonas, was killed in the forest of Skaistkalnis.
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in the winters, and would hide in the forests in the summers. In 1948, a priest in
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In 1996, a sculpture of Krivickas was uncovered in the Putiliškiai cemetery.
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Krivickas went to the Suostas primary school, and in 1938 he finished the
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in an essay contest. The same year Krivickas started to study at the
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headquarters, and fearing arrest, he subsequently went into hiding.
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in 1939, Krivickas and his colleagues moved there to study at
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Having enjoyed writing at an early age, Krivickas studied
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People shot dead by law enforcement officers in Lithuania
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In 2008, a remembrance sign was built at the death site.
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as Krivickas' parents sold their farm for a bigger one.
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His surviving works and pictures are displayed at the
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Bronius Krivickas was born on 17 November 1919 in the
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Index

Bronius Krivickas in 1939
Pervalkai
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Lithuania
Raguva
Lithuanian SSR
partisan
literary critic
Vytautas Magnus University
Vilnius University
realism
grotesque
absurdism
Lithuanian partisans
anti-Soviet partisan
occupying Soviet state
Lithuanian
Vytautas Magnus University
Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas
Šatrija art circle
Balys Sruoga
Mamertas Indriliūnas
Lithuanian partisan movement
Pervalkai
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Pasvalys District
Biržai District
Antanas Smetona
gymnasium
litai

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