ROMANIAN PROLETCULTISM
ROMANIAN PROLETCULTISM

Summary/Abstract: This study defines the main features of the Romanian literature during the first two decades of communism (also known as the proletcultism period), a hostile era in which the literature was marked by a conflict between esthetic and politics, being subordinated to the ideology. The censorship was the first condition for the literature existence. By respecting the party's indications, the censors asked the writers changes of vision. They had to get inspired only from the socialist actuality, to inculcate the fact that during communism people lived better than in any other historical period and that the ones who were against communism destroyed the Romanian spirituality. Romania was a closed society characterized by repression on each level. It was a hostile era in which the literature was oriented in a wrong direction and the cultural view became more and more degraded. The literature served the politics, stood for the regime and glorified the party's action.

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