Mina și minerul în literatura proletcultistă din prima jumătate a secolului al XX-lea. „Balada minerilor” de Marie Majerová și „Minerii” de Mihail Davidoglu
Mining and miners in proletarian literature from the beginning of the XX-th century. „Balad of a miner“ by Marie Majerová and „Miners“ by Mihail Davidoglu

Summary/Abstract: The article falls under the category of case studies, focusing on the way miners were seen by the people outside their guild during the totalitarian regime of the communist times. Being a paper that has as its central theme aspects from the life of miners belonging to the well- established mining communities in Romania – Valea Jiului zone, but referring also to the miners in the Bohemian coal mines, the article aims to examine data that could provide support for the workers who are often unfairly rewarded for their hard work. The case study strives to put together bits and pieces of the miners’ efforts to get coal and to justify the negative aspects judged ab iratio and ad absurdum by the uninitiated ones in the secrets of a craft that turns into destiny. The proletcultist way of judging miners turned them into heroes, as one can see in Mihail Davidoglu and Marie Majerová’s works.

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