Le vêtement dans la littérature communiste roumaine (I)
Clothing in Romanian Communist Literature (I)

Summary/Abstract: The Communism has pleaded for uniforms, believing that it will erase social differences, and the literature is one of the most interesting channels for receiving this state of affairs as depersonalization by clothing in the Communist times. The writer does not show that care for clothes, but in constructing a story, and therefore the clothing is placed on a second plan, encompassing an auctorial attitude towards the phenomenon, often in an involuntary way, transmitted to the literary imagery. With this idea, I chose twenty of the most representative epic works of the communist period and I followed sequences containing clothes descriptions. Adopting the method of anthropological symbolism of Gilbert Durand, I watched the types of synthems, registered in the sphere of the confusion. From the sequences analyzed, we see that communist ideology was built on the following idea: the clothes must express a certain type of decency, supported largely by population, with a resignation that has helped create an attitude of scheduled disregard of clothing.

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