Transgresser la censure communiste à travers l’ironie poétique
Transgressing Communist Censorship through Poetic Irony

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on Romanian poetry written under communism in order to see how several poets manage to overcome through irony the obstacles of censorship. As a boundary discursive strategy, irony allows them to attack the communist realities in the name of ethics but also to withdraw from a possible counter-offensive of the authorities in the name of aesthetics. Geo Dumitrescu, Marin Sorescu and Mircea Dinescu, poets belonging to different generations, resort to this tactic in order to obliquely criticize daily reality and the abuses of a regime otherwise impossible to denounce. By analyzing their work, we tried to see not only how irony becomes a way of undermining historical context and a form of surpassing its trauma, but also how much the ironical engagement in reality affected the aesthetic value of their poetic creation.

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