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Anonymous Fri Oct 4 09:06:54 2019 No.13932888 [Reply] [Original]

Why haven’t the Baltics produced anything of value in regards to music, art, film, philosophy, science, or literature?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 4 09:10:39 2019 No.13932898 >>13932888 arvo pärt is estonian so there's that at least

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 4 13:52:00 2019 No.13934099 >>13932888 Isaiah Berlin was Latvian.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 4 14:06:13 2019 No.13934177 >>13932888 Urmas Sisask

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 4 14:08:46 2019 No.13934198 Kant was from Königsberg if that counts.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 4 14:32:36 2019 No.13934302 Estonia has the Kalevipoeg

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 4 14:43:01 2019 No.13934333 I don't think anyone translated In the Shadow of the Altars yet, except some Lithuanian expats in Australia but they never published, I'd do it but I'm poor and have no time or money.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 4 14:44:33 2019 No.13934338 >>13932888 There are like 4 million or something like that living in the Baltics retard. Not in comparable to cointries lije russia, germany or france

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 4 14:46:46 2019 No.13934348 Interesting anthropological fact: the blond hair trait is believed to have originated in Estonia.

Anonymous Fri Oct 4 14:48:38 2019 No.13934353

Except we have but we're not in the autistic little western subhuman coffee club where the french and germans suck each others cannolis and pretend that molesting little boys is artistic culture. We have plenty of GOD tier works in Lithuania, but how would you know about them if you're not Lithuanian? Stupid fucking nigger.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 4 14:52:03 2019 No.13934368 >>13934353 I am Lithuanian. Name one (1). Also don’t say cannolis you wannabe guinea.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 4 14:52:09 2019 No.13934369 >>13934353 hey leave germans out of this

Anonymous Fri Oct 4 14:53:31 2019 No.13934373

>>13934353
>We have plenty of GOD tier works in Lithuania, but how would you know about them if you're not Lithuanian?
This is the case with all three, I assume. They just don't get translated into English, where literature is concerned, and that has nothing to do with worth, just a natural consequence of the countries being tiny, and of the culture being historically pretty disconnected from the West

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 4 14:54:42 2019 No.13934377 >>13934368 Ey Vytautas, pass the gabagool

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 4 15:12:54 2019 No.13934478 >>13932888 Emily Youcis and Brendon Small are two exceptionally gifted animators of Lithuanian descent.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 4 15:32:45 2019 No.13934546 >>13934348 S-source?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 4 16:11:07 2019 No.13934714 They just aren't translated to english

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 4 16:13:28 2019 No.13934725 >>13932888 Latvia has the Lāčplēsis poem which should be more well known. I think the character has some similarities towards Hercules. I could be wrong but he reminded me of a lot of qualities of him when I first heard about him when I was there.

Anonymous Fri Oct 4 16:37:33 2019 No.13934834

There are good literary works from Latvia, like those of Aleksandrs Čaks, Rainis, Aleksandrs Grīns, Andrejs Pumpurs and some others. The problem is, that they don't get translated. On the rare occasion that they are translated, it is in really bad quality.
>>13934725
Lāčplēsis zaudē savu vērtību ārpus Latvijas.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 4 16:52:39 2019 No.13934907 >>13934834 (not the guy you replied to) Jā, piekritīšu. Lāčplēsis ir nacionāls dārgums, un citām tautām es domāju tas diez vai daudz ko izteiks.

Anonymous Fri Oct 4 17:05:37 2019 No.13934966

>>13932888
There are a few notable scientists who attended Dorpat/Tartu University in Estonia.
Emil Lenz, the discoverer of Lenz's law, a pretty fundemental electrical principle.
Wilhelm Ostwald (Born in Riga) a Nobel laureate in chemistry
At the very least Estonia was a cozy place for Germans and Russians to go to school.
Regarding literature from there
Lots of it was about defining a post colonial/imperial identity so unless one's a Balt or a Baltiboo it probably would be of little interest, but I wouldn't say it's of no value.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 4 17:27:07 2019 No.13935062 >>13932898 They have quite a few really great composers. Arvo is the pleb filter of Estonian classical, he is great but there is so much more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Estonian_composers

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 4 17:37:41 2019 No.13935107 >>13934907 man patika tā grāmata kurā lāčplēsis velnu samala dzirnavās un tad kkādu čubāru apēda

>>	Nietzsche's fangirl Fri Oct 4 18:37:17 2019 No.13935320 File: 33 KB, 373x550, 1570134416030.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13934966 >Emil Lenz, the discoverer of Lenz's law >the discoverer of Lenz's law >discoverer

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