HERETICAL LITERATURE
HERETICAL LITERATURE

Summary/Abstract: Between 1945 and 1989, Romania have entered the Soviet sphere of influence and it lies under the sign of a socialist dictatorship which is built according to the Stalinist model and imposed on all areas of social life. The state is controlled by the sole party and the power is concerned in the hands of a General security. The control belongs entirely to the Communist Party which has a great influence in people’s life. Also, in the context of the totalitarian regime the freedom of thinking and of creation is limited and the literature has to be subordinated to the party’s interest. So that literature must find its own attitudes and responses. In his book, ”Heretical literature. Censored political texts between 1949 and 1977”, published in Bucharest in 2016, Liviu Maliţa talks about the confrontations of the Rumanian writers with the power represented in this case by the Censure, about the subversive literature which comes to deny the official literature promoted by the Communist party and about the dangers that the writer is exposed if he does not respect the norms imposed by the censor. Another work we have mentioned on this ocasion is Adrian Marino’s, ”Censorship in Romania” which is concerned with the specific points of Romanian’s censorship. This paper attempts to be a short presentation of the Censorship in Rumania in the Communist period and also of the condition of the writer and his creation during this black page of history.

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