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“This year, on October 13, the 150th anniversary of the poet and writer Jānis Poruks was celebrated in Latvia. Poruka’s life and work were once highly controversial. The echoes of these assessments have not subsided even today, ”says Marian Rižijs, an RMM art expert, literary critic and one of the conference participants.
A loner, a dandy, a bringer of the modern European spirit in Latvian culture, the first young romantic, the creator of archetypal images of Latvian literature – a pearl fisherman, a bribe, heartfelt people and pale boys – a patient of psychiatric hospitals – what does Poruks have for us today? What unexpected has been revealed by studying and re-evaluating Poruka’s life and work? Can Poruk also be called a German and Russian writer, and what did music mean to Poruk, and what does Poruk still mean to music?
The participants of the conference will try to answer these and other questions in their lectures – Viesturs Vecgrāvis, Ilona Miezīte, Inga Žolude, Aleksandrs Zapoļs, Ruta Kurpniece, Marians Rižijs, Anita Graumane, Ingus Barovskis, Igors Šuvajevs, Skaidrīte Lasmane, Matiass Le , Jānis Zālītis, Dzintars Gilba, Inese Žune, Oksana Kovzele, Ligita Ašme, Baiba Jaunslaviete, Kristiāna Kuzmina and Raimonds Briedis.
The audience of the conference will be greeted by the 21st century premieres of Jānis Poruks’ songs, as well as other musical performances. The conference is organized by the Museum of Literature and Music in cooperation with literary critic Viesturs Vecgrāvis and writer Inga Žoludis.
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