Abstract
The article reveals the theatricality of Petras Tarulis' prose. Tarulis was a leading figure of Lithuanian avant-garde movement "Four Winds" (1922- 1928). Particular attention is paid to the use of theatrical devices in the texts and their relation to theatre and art theories, elaborated in Russian Avant-garde and Russian Formalism. Tarulis' texts are obviously influenced by Viktor Shklovsky's idea of estrangement (ostranenie) and the principle of "laying the devices bare". Tarulis estranged the prose narrative organizing it according to the structure of theatre within theatre. Making theatrical devices bare, Tarulis broke the reliability of prose narrator and destroyed the illusion of a lit erary text as an imitation of life. Tarulis may be regarded as preceding Bertolt Brecht's Verfrem dungseffekt. The difference is that Brecht estranged the theatre by the use of epic devices, while Tarulis estranged the epic discourse by the use of the atrical devices.
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