Anthill in Prussia (Lithuanian: Skruzdėlynas Prūsijoje) is a novella by writer Juozas Aputis.
[1] It is one of his most famous and important works,[2] described as "one of the most prominent phenomenon of national prose",[3] allegorically covering themes such as existential anxiety, an individual's relationship with history, as well as the persistence of humanity and resistance to violence during times of rationality and irrationality.
[7] One of them, Vargonų balsas skalbykloje (The Organs' Voice in the Washing Room), which first appeared in the Nemunas magazine in 1988[8] but was written over the previous ten years during Aputis' most challenging creative period,[9] covers young people's initial youthfulness turned into compromise which deprives them of a full life, in which a multi-perspective narrative reminds of improvisation on the organ.
Aputis commented that the premise of the book came to him from a dream, in which you could only protest against the spiritual disorder of the USSR in the manner he described.
[6] The story also delves into the fate of the Baltic Prussians, tying them with modern-day Balts of Lithuania and Latvia.