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Jonas Mekas, Shiver of Memory by Peter Delpeut is not a conventional academic book, but an investigation into Jonas Mekas’s life and work triggered by the publication, in summer 2018, of an article titled “I Was There” written by the American historian Michael Casper. The latter “claimed that in his films, publications and interviews, Mekas had deliberately forgotten or misrepresented important events from his younger years in the Lithuania of the Second World War” (20). “I was shocked”, declared Delpeut, and after pondering the importance of Jonas Mekas’s work in his own life, and the effective tone of Casper’s article, Delpeut decided to “do [his] own research. About Mekas, about Casper, about [Delpeut’s] own judgements, which were searching diligently for solid ground” (45). Thus, the book is not another study of Mekas’s work, but a reflection on Mekas’s past and his media image, the role of the historian, the way collective and individual memories work, and certain events that happened in Lithuania during the Second World War. |
