INTEGRITATE ȘI LIBERTATE DE CONȘTIINȚĂ LITERARĂ ÎN ROMÂNIA COMUNISTĂ
Integrity and Freedom of Literary Conscience during the Communist Period from Romania

Summary/Abstract: The freedom of creation, in the sense of the modern Western model, did not exist during Ceausescu’s dictatorship. To a large extent, censorship and self-censorship previously inhibited creation, paradoxically orienting it towards a de-ideologized space of aesthetic autonomy: an ideal for which several successive battles were fought in Romanian literature. The literary groups from the communist period represented spaces of alternative literary culture to the literature officially accepted by the political power, and in some moments, they reached forms of counterculture. In these literary groups there was a valuable literature, a freedom of creation, of communication, of thought, of expression. The Echinox Group was a literary group that fought for the integrity and freedom of literary conscience during the communist period. The literary group „Echinox” fought for the autonomy of literary aesthetics, broke away from socialist realism and began to recover the values of lost literary aesthetics.

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