A MAGATARTÁS KÉTÉRTELMŰSÉGE ─ ADRIAN PĂUNESCU KARRIERJE
THE AMBIGUITY OF ATTITUDE ─ THE CAREER OF ADRIAN PĂUNESCU

Author(s): Andrei Bodiu
Subject(s): Romanian Literature, Politics and society
Published by: Scientia Kiadó
Keywords: Adrian Păunescu; Ceaușescu; Romanian Communist Party;
Summary/Abstract: On his 60th birthday, the name of the poet Adrian Păunescu was given to a school. Păunescu is not the only one whose name is immortalized with him still alive. Many statues, memorial plaques are dedicated to people still alive. If one of them is sceptical about himself, he will face his statue and get courage. Păunescu's career began in the second plan of five years in the sixties. His first book was published in the year of the important 9th congress of the Romanian Communist Party when the party leader NicolaeCeau³escu inaugurated a very short liberal era. The leader then spoke of "a diversity of styles" as something admissible. This led to a remarkable literary movement joined by Păunescu, too. I drew a parallel between Păunescu's and Ceaușescu's careers for different reasons. First of all in communism it is impossible to understand literature without the influence of politics. On the other hand, more then anybody else, Păunescu as a poet clang close to Ceaușescu as a politician. Păunescu had a major contribution to the absurd personal cult of this communist leader. Many poets belonging to the group of the sixties illustrate the same party spirit.

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