IOANA POSTELNICU’S PROLETCULTIST LITERATURE
IOANA POSTELNICU’S PROLETCULTIST LITERATURE

Summary/Abstract: The moment of imposing socialist realism in literature represented the reconfiguration of the editorial system. Being part of the generation of writers trained in the prevailing atmosphere of Sburătorul literary circle, Ioana Postelnicu was forced to adapt herself and her writings to the new conditions imposed by the socialist regime. Her books from the realist-socialist period, Franck and Smith Company, Poenari Forest, Wonder City and the adolescents will reflect industrial progress and the last of them will be a kind of guide to raising children. Aligned to the ideological system, Poenari Forest was for sure exactly that type of writing accepted by the socialist regime. The writer was forced to nuance reality by inventing a series of obstacles, digressions and confusions. In Poenari Forest she paints the figure of the worker seen as a collective character. Nothing more common since the socialist revolution has led the working class to become aware as a collective force of its full working capacities. In the Wonder City, the child's aspiration to be a working man when he grows up springs from the education in the spirit of the Party he receives. Also in The adolescents Ioana Postelnicu limits the notion of adolescence and does not deviate from the actual purpose of the novel following the ideological norms іmрosed by the regime.

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