REFLECTIONS OF POLITICAL IDEOLOGY IN TRAVEL LITERATURE. GEORGE CĂLINESCU AND THE IMAGE OF THE USSR, KIEV-MOSCOW-LENINGRAD NOVEMBER 1946
REFLECTIONS OF POLITICAL IDEOLOGY IN TRAVEL LITERATURE. GEORGE CĂLINESCU AND THE IMAGE OF THE USSR, KIEV-MOSCOW-LENINGRAD NOVEMBER 1946
Author(s): Petre-Florian DraghiciSubject(s): Fiction, Romanian Literature, Political behavior, Politics and society, Philology, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: George Călinescu; travel literature; propaganda; USSR; communism;
Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to present and discuss the phenomenon of „travel literature” as propaganda regarding the USSR after World War 2. We focus on our article on the journey in the Soviet Union made by Romanian writer George Călinescu, one of the most famous Romanian intellectuals that became a „fellow traveler” and propagandist of the Romanian Communist Party after 1944.
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2021
- Issue No: 27
- Page Range: 544-554
- Page Count: 11
- Language: Romanian
