sentences:  The novel was adapted into a film, "Tas prakeiktas nuolankumas" (The Damn Submissive) in 1970.After his retirement from the University of Lithuania, Tumas was able to devote more time to fiction.Didactic novel "Šeimos vėžiai" (Tracks of a Family; 1929) looks into a family of Lithuanian intellectuals and their choices between an "empty" life of a cushy job and romantic love or a "meaningful" life of work for the Lithuanian nation.