Quand l’exil à l’intérieur du pays engendre la Peur
When exile ultim one’s country triggers Fear
Author(s): Mara Magda MafteiSubject(s): Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Comparative Study of Literature, Romanian Literature, History of Communism, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: exile; communism; prison; Fear; Nicolae Steinhardt; Constantin Noica
Summary/Abstract: In this short paper, we propose to analyze the Fear experienced by the Romanian intellectual when Secret Police could knock at his door at any time of night or day to imprison and torture him.Inoculate Fear represented the main instrument of torture practiced by the communist Secret Police. Examples extracted from writings of two intellectuals subjected to communist terror (N. Steinhardt and C. Noica) will show us the states of mind man experiences from the moment the idea of Fear seeps into his head to different “strategies” imagined in order to live with it.
Journal: Romanica Silesiana
- Issue Year: 11/2016
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 225-232
- Page Count: 8
- Language: French