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Ir vienintelis būdas tai sužinoti – tiesiog leisti pašnekovui kalb÷ti. Antra, galime sužinoti tokių biografijos duomenų, kurių niekada nebūtume atradę, jei būtume susitelkę į vieną temą. Tai, žinoma, nereiškia, kad būsime įleisti į kiekvieną pašnekovo biografijos kampelį, kurį jis gali prisiminti.
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What are the advantages of biographical narratives? First of all – they allow our interlocutors to decide on their own on the importance of specific events of their lifes. Not because they put them in certain position of narrative - in most cases interlocutors adhere to the chronology of events. More important is how much time they devotee to those events and how they relate them to the other moments of their own biographies. However groundbreaking events, among them are traumatic experiences of wartime, occupy a central place in biographies. Not always, however, this is happening, and the only way to find that out is to let our interlocutor to speak. Second - let us reach the threads of biography that we would never have discovered, if we would focused only on the chosen topic. This, of course, does not mean that we will get acess to every part of biography our interlocutor can recall. Certain things are simply forgotten by the interlocutor at the time of interview but some other are deliberately omited. Our task is not to act as investigators, who then by all means try to discover these places specially silenced. Just the fact they exist in biographies is very valuable and significant. This in turn leads us to conclusion from which, perhaps, I should have started the whole argument - in our recordings not factography is the most important, but the way people remember. We are convinced that, based on stories entrusted to us, we can not absolutely decide on the facts. This does not mean that we do not believe our interlocutors, but only that we don't focus on facts first and foremost. Thirdly - a situation in which someone tells us about his life builds a unique bond between the one who talks and one who listens. Due to this we can get better insight into particular biographies. Last but not least advantage of biographical interviews, I want to mention here, is following: a biographical interviews allows us to write a biography of the person and, therefore, a concise presentation of the interlocutor on the occasions of the work related to the dissemination of our collections.
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