Un caz de cenzură ante imprimatur: autocenzura
An Instance of Ante Imprimatur Censorship: Self-Censorship

Summary/Abstract: The institution of censorship in the communist regime is still an insufficiently explored field of study. The present study proposes at first a simple, yet functional classification of the acts of censorship imposed at that time on printed texts in general, and on literary texts in particular; it is what I have called here “ante imprimatur censorshipˮ and “post imprimatur censorshipˮ. The first refers to the censorship of texts written during the communist period and subjected to censorship before reaching print. The second illustrates the more complex – and more common – status of texts published before 1948 and reissued during the communist period after being mutilated by censorship through cuts and omissions.Subsequently, the study focuses on a particular case of ante imprimatur censorship: self-censorship, which is the preventive censorship of a literary text by its own author before submitting it for publication. Self-censorship is the most volatile and difficult type of censorship to analyze, especially due to the rarity of examples of self-censored texts. Nevertheless, there are a few volumes published during the communist period with so-called ˮdeliberate deletionsˮ made by the author, volumes that have been reprinted after 1989 by the same author in their complete, uncensored version, with the previously (self-)censored passages marked in the text. The present analysis of this specific type of censorship – self-censorship during the communist regime – is based on such a volume, an occasional journal written by Petre Stoica, published in 1988 and then reissued in 1998, in its uncensored version.

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