Tentativa de sinucidere a lui Paul Cornea, director în Ministerul Culturii, 28 martie 1955
The Suicide Attempt of Paul Cornea, Director in the Ministry of Culture, March 28, 1955
Author(s): Petre OprisSubject(s): History, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Special Historiographies:, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism
Published by: Institutul National pentru Studiul Totalitarismului
Keywords: Paul Cornea; Romania; Marxism-Leninism; suicide; Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu;
Summary/Abstract: Paul Cornea (1923-2018) was a Romanian literary historian and theoretician. After a short period in politics as a young Communist intellectual, Cornea devoted himself to an academic career and became one of the most important historians of Romanian literature and a specialist in comparative literature of international reputation. On March 23, 1955 he tried to suicide because he was afraid of those who might accuse him of pointing to the books published by Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu (an enemy of the people, at that time) for use in preparing a lesson on Marxism-Leninism about the bourgeois-democratic revolution in Romania.
Journal: Arhivele Totalitarismului
- Issue Year: XXX/2022
- Issue No: 1-2
- Page Range: 198-204
- Page Count: 7
- Language: Romanian
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