PARALLEL LIBRARIES OF THE FORMER SECURITATE. ANA BLANDIANA, ‘ÎNTÂMPLĂRI DE PE STRADA MEA’ (‘EVENTS FROM MY STREET’)
PARALLEL LIBRARIES OF THE FORMER SECURITATE. ANA BLANDIANA, ‘ÎNTÂMPLĂRI DE PE STRADA MEA’ (‘EVENTS FROM MY STREET’)

Summary/Abstract: Parallel Libraries of the Former Securitate. Ana Blandiana, ‘Întâmplări de pe strada mea’. The present article aims to reveal the measures that the former Securitate – Agency for National Security during communism in Romania – took against potentially subversive texts. The archives of Securitate offer a second contextualization of Romanian literature under communism. Intellectuals, and mainly writers, were always perceived by the communist regime as a potential danger towards national safety. Therefore, the intellectual elite never seized to be monitored, manipulated, or sanctioned, accordingly to their attitude regarding the communist ideology. A case of such sanctioning is Ana Blandiana, whose children’s book ‘Întâmplări de pe strada mea’ was denounced as anti-political and withdrawn from the public circuit.

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