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Scriitorii generaţiei jertfite”
Writers of the Sacrificed Generation

Author(s): Claudia Matei (Varga)
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii Vasile Goldiş
Keywords: Romanian literature in Bessarabia; soviet occupation; the reprisals; the sacrificed generation; literary resistance; la littérature roumaine de la Bessarabie; l’occupation soviétique; les répressions; la génération sacrifiée; la résistance littéraire

Summary/Abstract: This study is dedicated to several less known aspects of the history of Romanian literature in Bessarabia and to the destiny of the majority of writers who made their debut and thrived within these surroundings between 1918 – 1940. The author sheds new light on the tragic destinies of the writers from that generation after the occupation of Bessarabia by the Soviet Union: E.Dobroşinschi-Malai and I. Dicescu-Siminel – who disappeared with no trace; I. Sulacov – who were shot by the Soviet security intelligence; Ch. Rusu, M. Curicheru, A.Terziman, Al. Cezar Stoica, killed in the GULAG; N. Costenco, E. Gane, P.Halippa, B.Baidan, P. Stati, Al. Tambur, V. Ţepordei – held in the prisons of Siberia; S. Matei Nica, A. Ciurunga – held in the Communist prisons of Romania; D. Iov, killed in the prison of Aiud. The author names the above group of writers the sacrificed generation, emphasizing the essential aspects of their work.

  • Issue Year: VIII/2012
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 55-68
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Romanian
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