Existentialism

„The collection consists of six parts whose titles, though laconic, give the text an emotionally expressive tone. They can also be read as a history of psychic crisis – anticipation, anxiety, abandonment, breakdown, blame, consolation – and it is precisely this context that the division into chapters imposes on all prose-poetry units in the book.” Ilva Skulte, punctummagazine.lv

„It seems one truly cannot strive to describe „Existentialism” as a whole: each individual text is a microcosm/story, saturated and quite dense, often distinctly tense. One of the undertones is irony, but nostalgia is also present. The small volume is almost encyclopedic – with an unpretentious pretension to view the various facets of human existence and to unravel them, discuss them, or simply state them.” Līvija Baumane-Andrejevska, la.lv

„I would say that this tactic – writing „somewhere in between” – has paid off, because „Existentialism” is essentially a new and fresh inter-genre both in content and form. Perhaps it would be more accurate not to call these texts poems, but rather – matulises written by Matulis... Not fitting into traditional categories, Matulis has convincingly shown himself as a peculiarity of contemporary Latvian literature that challenges familiar distinctions between genres, modes of expression, registers, and levels of text.” Ivars Šteinbergs, delfi.lv

Some texts from Existentialism are also available in Lithuanian.