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Anna Auzāne and Paula Auzāne

Anna Auzāne is a PhD student in literature at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Latvia.

Paula Auzāne is a student at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Latvia and a translator.

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Articles by Anna Auzāne and Paula Auzāne

  1. The depiction of hippies in Soviet Latvia IN MIERVALDIS BIRZE’S Rozā  ZILONIS [THE PINK ELEPHANT]

    The article discusses the portrayal of hippies in The Pink Elephant (Rozā zilonis, 1976), a story by the Latvian SSR writer and physician, Miervaldis Birze (1921–2000). The author’s attitude towards this counterculture is mostly critical, even patronizing; however, it is through the portrayal of the hippies, Broņislavs and Baiba, that the author indulges in a conversation about young adulthood, revives the story, and even trifles with the questionable or inadmissible aspects of life. The Pink Elephant, when read through the lens of renewed interest about Soviet hippies, reveals their living conditions, attitude towards power, their parents, and themselves. As opposed to their Western counterparts, the impoverished Soviet hippies (who had experienced the system of blats and the shadow economy) did not condemn consumerism; in fact, they sought out material goods, especially those originating from the other side of the ocean.

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