PSYCHIC DEATH AND THE COURAGE OF TELLING THE TRUTH IN AUGUSTIN BUZURA’S WORKS
PSYCHIC DEATH AND THE COURAGE OF TELLING THE TRUTH IN AUGUSTIN BUZURA’S WORKS

Summary/Abstract: Augustin Buzura was an author that was deeply anchored in the reality of his own time, a lucid conscience, an alive spirit, a critic whose aim was to deface the infernal mask of communism. A persona with a thorough journalistic experience at Tribuna magazine from Cluj, Augustin Buzura took upon himself to express the truth through columns, but most of all through novels, in which he demasked the imposture, the demagogy and the corruption at its highest level, describing the phenomenon of moral breakdown in society. The novelist built his works around several concepts, such as truth, freedom of conscience and the struggle between man and its history, all of which were structured upon a central theme: psychic death – a notion which starts a riot against all of those ideas. This riot is perceived all throughout Buzura’s literary works, especially through his characters, that in spite of the chaos surrounding them, are trying to maintain their firm lucidity. The novelist was forced to become acquainted with death early on in his life. He would describe the concept of biological death as a mandatory link towards some other entity, while also assigning another edge to it by implying that psychic death incapacitates a man’s possibility of behaving like himself. This idea became the main theme of his works, next to other forms of alienation: solitude, hatred and vengeance. All of his characters believe in the idea of truth, their struggle sprouting from their own attachments to life and death, as governing themes of existence. The writer’s mission was his core belief that truth had to be made extensively known, without any bias attached to it.

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