Julius Kaupas (1920-1964) is one of the most fascinating writers of the landowners and archers’ generation. By trade, a doctor and psychiatrist and during his short life, he expressed himself as a novelist, an author of tales, an essayist and literary critic. J. Kaupas took an exclusive place in the history of Lithuanian literature in 1948, after publishing the book Daktaras Kripštukas pragare ir kitos ne mažiau įdomios pasakos, surašytos slaptose Kauno miesto kronikose (Doctor Kripshtukas in hell and other not-less-interesting tales, written in Kaunas’ secret chronicles). It is one of the most interesting books of both the Lithuanian exodus and children’s literature. With this book, J. Kaupas became the town-tale pioneer in Lithuanian literature. No other Lithuanian literature writer equals him in shifting the colorful panorama of Kaunas into such a wonderful tale.

The publishing house “Versus aureus” republished the book in 2006.