LITERATURE AND IDEOLOGY, THE IMPOSSIBLE MIX
LITERATURE AND IDEOLOGY, THE IMPOSSIBLE MIX

Summary/Abstract: Literature has its own truth, which must be taken into account. Soon after 1945, when times were still turbulent, Lucia Demetrius adopted the new ideology, even in her literature. She first published in the interwar period, a time full of promises, but after the war it had to adapt to new realities. Novelist and playwright, Lucia Demetrius was one of the most important women writers for what was called socialist realism. Unfortunately, much of her dramatic works is strongly ideologized and thus, for the contemporary spectator, obsolete. Even if some characters are well defined and the action is well developed, there is a time when the text always pays tribute to ideology.

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