Monica Lovinescu între domeniul criticii de întâmpinare şi problematica totalitarismului
Monica Lovinescu between the field of objetion critique and totalitarianism

Summary/Abstract: [Monica Lovinescu between the Initial Criticism Domain and the Issue of Totalitarianism] Culture represents the substance and the space of confrontation between the disclosed allocution and the propaganda of the communist regime. For more than three decades, behind the microphone of the Free Europe radio, Monica Lovinescu points to the Romanian society dominant thinking and develops the reader’s horizon of expectation. The totalitarianism controls and filters the broadcasted information in order to obtain an efficient political and ideological propaganda. Consequently, the media is clamed by both sides, because it is extremely important in the society’s political and cultural mechanism. In a democratic system, the politicians, the media and the public constitute a group submitted to power changes: they do not always know who wins and who looses. The communism strains the media to accept and to promote a certain kind of speech: impersonal, strictly informative and propagandistic. The media impact on the society depends on the suggested image, not necessarily on the real one. In this context, Monica Lovinescu speaks about the reappearing of the Romanian literature after the de-Stalinisation, about the evolution of culture and intellectuality, about the problems of Romania and the Romanians, about the censorship and the Security Service. This paper presents and comments the issue of the European and Romanian spiritual values as seen in Unde scurte (The Short Waves): six tomes that reproduce radio shows recorded between 1961 and 1995. Monica Lovinescu defends the pluralism in Romanian culture and politics, and her essays contribute to the debate on cultural values. She understands the deep nature of the communism and she tries to impose the right to normality, to sustain the truth. Undele scurte (The Short Waves) forms a moral guide with an educational mission. Its purpose is multiple: the rectification of the characters from the social and cultural scene, the improvement of the fight against politics and lack of aesthetics, the strengthening of Romanian culture, even if it is done from another geographical space. The chronics have a certain cruel sincerity that may sometimes appear as mean. This attitude is a sign of originality, of non stereotype thinking. The author does not embrace the ideas of her group if they do not convince or fit her. She denies the form in order to accept the style and she contradicts the mentality and taste of the present. She writes with sincerity what she thinks and lives.

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