Fenomenul carceral si literaturizarea
Imprisonment and literary sublimation

Summary/Abstract: This study has as a starting point the image of the Soviet Gulag, which has become the topos of a new literary genre, the carceral memorial genre, encompassing works written in jail or denouncing the attrocities commited by the communist regime. The study focuses on the works of some Soviet writers, the most representative being Aleksandr SoljeniŃîn, and mostly upon the works of the Romanian writers Nicolae Steinhardt in Jurnalul fericirii, Constantin Noica in RugaŃi-vă pentru fratele Alexandru, Ion Ioanid in Închisoarea noastră cea de toate zilele and Virgil Ierunca in Fenomenul PiteSti, and it is concerned with presenting different attitudes towards the carceral experience and with valorizing the literary part in each of these works, thus argumenting their well-deserved place in the sphere of literature.

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