Censorship in Romania
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Censorship in Romania
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9789639116092
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244
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15.9 x 23.4 cm
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Preface George Macovescu The Odyssey of a Volume Maria Banus No Ideal in the World Could Justify It Poetry Ion Negoitescu The Freedom of Expression Is the Salt of Culture Vera Calin Romania Is Not Yet Out of Chaos Stefan Augustin Doinas Censorship Distorted Consciences Poetry Nina Cassian I Dream of Belonging to the Global Culture Poetry Petre Ghelmez Censorship Is a Tension Poetry Eugen Simion The Romanian Literary Critic Still Cherishes Utopias Matei Calinescu The Intellectual Scar Ion Vianu The Trap of History Dumitru Radu Popescu Burdened with the Censorship of Freedom Marin Sorescu This Age Belongs to Primitive Energies Poetry Ileana Malancioin The Only Obstacle Was Myself Poetry Virgil Nemoianu Break of Contact with Reality Mircea Martin Pact with Censorship Mihai Ursachi What Future Do We Expect for Mankind? Poetry Ana Blandiana Nobody Exists in Vain Poetry Nicolae Prelipceanu Censorship-The Wooden Shoe Poetry Lucia Negoita To Save Our Souls Adriana Bittel Evil Sieve Prose Dan Verona The Nightmare Poetry Mircea Dinescu The Revolution Must Take Place in Their Minds Poetry Daniela Crasnaru Recuperating Our Freedom Poetry Denisa Comanescu Our Father Only at Home Poetry Florin Bican Language behind Gilded Bars Simona Popescu The Black Holes Index

Lidia Vianu

Censorship in Romania

Through a series of interviews with prominent Romanian literary figures and a select presentation of their writings, Lidia Vianu asks how, under communism, did Romanian writers cope with constant ideological shifts and, in turn, respond to the censorship that so often accompanied such changes? Now that Romania has emerged from almost fifty years of Communist rule, what is the current status of censorship? These writers are important because, though working under the terror of communism, they dared to put their thoughts into writing, remaining true to their craft, and, in some instances, even arranging for publication. Vianu has chosen a series of subversive writings that not only indicted communism but were also widely embraced by the Romanian public. The author continues to argue that after the fall of communism and the disappearance of subversive literature, the Romanian public started to devour works of translation. A somewhat different form of censorship arose: state-sponsored censorship was replaced by what Vianu terms a crisis of native writing.