Purge as Radical Censorship
Purge as Radical Censorship

Summary/Abstract: After the fall of communism it was given a considerable importance to the ethical criterion in evaluating contemporary literature. Romanian society and with it the whole cultural world were trying to identify and fix their ideological wounds accumulated nearly half a century of totalitarianism. The noble intention of clarifying the immediate past, absolutely legitimate, has however slipped into a vigilante attitude that significantly exceed the cultural boundaries tending to a politicized vision of opposite sign and even to retaliation. Distance between good intentions and abuse is often almost invisible. So there appeared the “blacklists”, informal but no less stigmatizing. The phenomenon is not new in Romanian culture. Depending on the regimes with authoritarian tendencies there were, repeatedly, censorship campaigns and were launched more or less official blacklists designed to block public access to those who are at a point in political disgrace. Political interference in literature is not so new, how else is not new nor the purge occurring after December 1989.

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