REVISITING COMMUNISM IN NONFICTIONAL PROSE
REVISITING COMMUNISM IN NONFICTIONAL PROSE

Summary/Abstract: The interest in communism cannot be identified only in fiction but also in nonfiction after the Revolution of 1989. The publication of literature about the communist period cannot be separated thus from nonfiction which developed around 2000. However, the demarcation between these genres is quite fragile, as the writers of nonfiction have stated, due to the constant overlapping of collective memory with their own memories. The authors open the drawers of their past in an attempt to come to terms with it. The following paper examines this process in Gabriel H. Decuble’s volume `Cartea roz a comunismului`, a non-ideological piece of writing which depicts a series of adaptable individuals who live their life despite the shortcomings of the communist period.

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