Soviet literature requires a thorough and detailed analysis to be applied. From one angle the spirits of collaboration may be observed (based on different considerations), while another angle presents contestation and indirect resistance. The postwar period is ambiguous one. Therefore, it needs to be taken under detailed investigation. The previously mentioned problems are not only significant and actual for post socialistic and post colonial countries but also may be regarded as ones of the most prominent dimensions of the recent centuries. The aim mentioned above was the cause for the object under investigation. The paper is subjected to the novel trilogy of one of the most distinguished authors of Lithuanian war prose, i.e. K. Marukas namely “For Whom the Sun Rises”, “Just a Few of Us”, “Soldierly Novel”. The novelty of the research is that the novels of K. Marukas are analyzed on the basis of new approach in Lithuania which is revealed in the works of the authors of Western Europe and the USA. The most crucial element of the previously mentioned works is conception towards autobiographical (memory) and war literature. The literary theory together with practice is the main criteria for the corpus analyzed. The investigation of the literary works is based on the literary analysis and the addition of sociological, psychoanalytical, psychological and historical elements. The particularity of K. Marukas novels is revealed by observation of the development of war prose as well... [to full text]