MEMORY AND LITERARY EQUILIBRIUM
MEMORY AND LITERARY EQUILIBRIUM

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the relationship between literature and ideology, more precisely the inter-linkage between tradition and various forms of political pressure motivated by the political or non-aesthetic vigor. We will analyze the censorship of centralized state apparatuses to prove that it is a harming initiative when it is thought that politically motivated writings can replace memory, and consequently literary memory. We will further argue that in the evolutionary curve of the phenomenon of literature, there should exist non-ideological ethics, which implies that the author of literature, as well as the scholar who studies literature, by aiming the attractive innovatory and visionary future of literature, should not forget heritage, whether it is religious, cultural or of ethnic provenience. Likewise, we will point out the ideological transformations of the tendency of oblivion of the identity and religious heritage practiced by ideological criticism, recalibrated in their continuity in various forms of post-s and ism-s. Furthermore, we will argue that the utopian concept of the “new without the old”, transformed into ideologeme, always plays the game of structures that possess the will for power. Moreover, the political concept of the “new without the old”, always tries to erase individuality, to harm the normal contract of trust between people through the primordiality of human thymos.

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