Letter – human oldest way of communication in written form, known from 18th century BC in Egypt. Epistolary prose – the collection of letters and correspondence, which appeared in early 18th century (in the age of Enlightenment) is still alive till our days. The first signs of Lithuanian epistolary appeared in literature in interwar period. Much more epistolary works appeared from the end of 20th century up to the beginning of the 21st century (modernism and postmodernism.) In this writing for a Master degree three modern Lithuanian epistolary examples are being studieg: the novel Letters from Viešvilė (2001) by Leonardas Gutauskas, narrative The best metaphysical friend by Herkus Kunčius and novel And Tomorrow We’ll Have to Go On (2002) by Ugnė Barauskaitė. These examples have common features and they are: the letter, the situation between the addressee and the author, dialogue (monologue), the outlook of feelings, the subjectivity and the need of a game. The aim of the work – the research of the transformation of modern epistolary and the influence of modern poetry on epistolary prose. These issues are almost unknown in Lithuanian literary criticism. Obviously, the questions are far too abstract, for that reason I have formulated concrete tasks of a research: The influence of some poetical elements of modern prose ( for example the subjectivity of narration, the criticism and search of values, inner monologue and the technique of stream-of-consciousness) on... [to full text]