Gintarė Adomaitytė
 Gintarė Adomaitytė is a well-known journalist, essayist, and writer who has recently become an author of literature for children and adolescents. The book contains ten literary tales that are at once independent and connected to one another. The tales are first of all bound together by the place, the City of Winds, about which the author has learned from Curious Breeze. Important characters in the tales include the Great Wind and a number of lesser or younger winds: Curious, Scapegrace, Sleepy-Head, Tomboy, and Touchy. One tale mentions Timid Shoemaker, while in another we learn about his daughter, Sandy, for whom “every object in the city has a sound” and who likes to dance in the street while it rains. In another story, Sandy meets Violinist, who plays only at night and whose musical melodies are repeated to human beings by the Winds. It eventually becomes clear that Violinist as well as Sandy have fled from a foreign city – the reason for their strangeness.
Adomaitytė’s tales contain elements of playfulness and nonsense (in one small city “it rains snow and snows rain”). While the tales exhibit the model of toy stories, their most important aspect is their poeticism and allegorical allusions. We recognise the literary tradition of Oscar Wilde and Hans Christian Anderson, yet Adomaitytė’s texts are not overly difficult and are entirely comprehensible for readers not yet of school age or those in the very first grades, as they engender a sensitivity to true literary art.
Vėjų miesto pasakos (Tales from the City of Winds). Vilnius: Gimtasis žodis, 2003. 46 pp.
ISBN 9955-512-38-7 © Gintarė Adomaitytė
© Illustrations, Daiva Kairevičiūtė Gimtasis žodis
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