The relationship of writers with Power in Romania in 1977 Cover Image

Relația scriitorilor cu Puterea în România anului 1977
The relationship of writers with Power in Romania in 1977

Author(s): Flori Bălănescu
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Romanian Literature
Published by: ArtPoligraf SRL
Keywords: audience;conformity;relaxation;human rights;repression;samizdat;solidarity;

Summary/Abstract: The year 1977, nicknamed human rights, meant for Romania the exit from the deafeningsilence of conformity. The writer Paul Goma was the only one who publicly expressed solidaritywith Charter 77 from Czechoslovakia, initiating a Human Rights Movement. The intellectuals, withtwo exceptions, did not join. The present study tries to explain why romanian intellectuals did notshow solidarity with the human rights movement, in a year in which almost all the countries in theSoviet block were moving in this direction.

  • Issue Year: II/2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 50-64
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Romany