Communist Censorship and Romanian Poetry of the 1980s
Communist Censorship and Romanian Poetry of the 1980s

Summary/Abstract: The study deals with the issue of communist censorship as applied in the 1980s, especially to young postmodern writers. The example detailed in the current study refers to the conditions in which Mircea Cărtărescu’s volume, Poeme de amor, was published in 1983. A post-communist (unexcised) version of one of his poems is used for comparison with the two variants (censored and uncensored) with a view to observing the elements eliminated by the censorship. Generally speaking, the mechanisms of censorship prove to be complex and fluid (sometimes an ideological story was added to the rejection of a volume) and sometimes, a closer look reveals their flaws and oscillations (as it is obvious in the case of a poem signed Alexandru Muşina, which was censored twice, in two different manners).

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