THE RESISTANCE THROUGH CULTURE: MYTH AND REALITY
THE RESISTANCE THROUGH CULTURE: MYTH AND REALITY

Summary/Abstract: This study defines the main features of the Romanian literature during the decades of communism, the conflicts between the two sides writers (the ones who accepted the ethical compromise and the ones who managed to maintain a certain independence concerning their work) in a hostile era in which the literature was oriented in a wrong direction and it was marked by a conflict between esthetic and politics. In a totalitarian state, where the power system was a particular one, the social life had an unusual activity and the culture had unexpected parts, the relation between literature and politics was special. During communism the culture was subordinated to the political system and the writers became sometimes officers of that system. 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. The censorship role was to annihilate the gap between reality and ideology. The cultural view during the Romanian communism became more and more degraded. Romania was a closed society characterized by repression on each level. The literature served the politics, stood for the regime and glorified the Leader’s action.

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