Lena Constante și Evghenia Ginzburg: literaturizarea complexei experiențe concentraționare
Lena Constante and Evghenia Ginzburg: The Literaturization of Concentrational Experience

Summary/Abstract: The present study proposes a descriptive and analytical parallelism that follows the concentration experiences of two of the victims of the communist regime: Lena Constante and Evghenia Ginzburg. Although belonging to different spaces, Romania and the USSR, both authors of memoirs of detention are models, available today, for the capacity to preserve human values regardless of the survival conditions imposed by the communist regime on its enemies. This comparative study follows two segments: the complex route of each of them in the Soviet inferno, but also how they put into words this experience. First, I want to highlight those elements that define the similarity of their detention, counting both the duration of the punitive experience (over ten years) and its variety (violence of the investigation; isolation in a detention cell; considering the transfer in the middle of other prisoners as a rescue; whether the reassignment of the right to communicate is made in prison or in the camp, as in the case of Evghenia Ghinzburg). Second, in both cases we are dealing with a special talent for transforming the past into literature; the similarities continue with the fact that in every situation the author structures her memoirs in two volumes extensive in size but very carefully constructed. With these confessional volumes, Lena Constante and Evghenia Ginzburg have managed to render the real picture of the communist past to actuality but also to provide special pages of literature.

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