On September 11, the presentation of Aldona Ruseckaitė's books "Loneliness" and "Look at the Horizon" will take place.

This is A. Ruseckaitė's sixth biographical book, which, like all the others, is based on archival material, as well as O. Puidienė's diary.
The material was collected for a long time and carefully in the Vilnius University Library, the main archive of the writer Vaidilutė, the Vrublevskiai libraries of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, the Kaunas University of Technology libraries, the Maironis Lithuanian Literature Museum, the National MK Čiurlionis Art Museum and elsewhere: “When writing this book, I had great support – Vytautas Kubilius’ study “Two Literary Swings. Kazys Puida and Vaidilutė” (2003), as well as Vaidilutė’s work, which was analyzed by literary scholars V. Daujotytė and R. Bleizgienė, alongside the work of other women of the 20th century. I tried to read everything that has been written about O. Puidienė carefully and rely on it. Of course, when I found unpublished information and interesting facts in the archives while researching, I felt like Ona’s friend, wanting to bring her to us.” – says the author.

To retell, interpret, and reflect on the lives of writers in a novel is an extremely complex and responsible task that requires deep listening, empathy, insight. And accuracy. The twists and turns of O. Puidienė's life and complex fate involved the author of "Unity" in the literary and cultural context of that time. It was necessary to go back 100 years, "talk" to Vaidilute, ask, answer herself, guess, imagine, analyze. To be in the 20th century. era, walk mystical paths with Vaidilute, get to know and be friends with Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Juozas Tumus-Vaižgantas, Antanas and Sofija Smetonas, Jonas Basanavičius, Petras Vileišis, Gabrielius Žemkalnis-Landsbergis, Sofija Kymantaite-Čiurlioniene, Jonas Biliūnas. To spend seven years together in Chelyabinsk, to be cared for in 1914. Lithuanian war refugees, creating camps, wandering around Russia during the civil war, returning to Kaunas in 1920. Vaidilutė published three books, the most important of which was the novel "Fatherland", which Maironis considered significant.

The event will also feature the writer's other book, a collection of poems "Prie horizonto atsigrėjk" (2024). In it, A. Ruseckaitė sensitively explores the themes of memory and time, connects past and present experiences, and in conversations returns to relatives, friends, and even classics of Lithuanian literature. This is poetry that contains dreams, longing, fulfillments and unfulfillments, immortalized in subtle details of nature and everyday life. The book was awarded the Dionizas Poško Literary Prize.

All of A. Ruseckaitė's work and creations are about people. Every manuscript, check, piece of paper with a few strokes tells the museum curator about human character, hobbies, choices, deliberate and rash decisions, the meaning of existence between this and that border, between heaven and earth. Her consciousness has deep roots in the village of Ingavangis, in her native fields, the lands long inhabited by her parents and ancestors, to which we also travel, leaving larger or smaller footprints.
Let's be alone together with writer A. Ruseckaite, the Lithuanian Writers' Union Publishing House and books in which people open up. Books from the Lithuanian Writers' Union will be available for purchase during the event.