CHILDHOOD UNDER COMMUNIST REGIME AND ITS REAPPRAISAL BY POST-COMMUNIST ROMANIAN WRITERS
CHILDHOOD UNDER COMMUNIST REGIME AND ITS REAPPRAISAL BY POST-COMMUNIST ROMANIAN WRITERS

Summary/Abstract: The essay brings into discussion the relationship between childhood as seen in contemporary Romanian literary works and the 1989 moment as a temporal border enclosing a childhood spent in Ceauşescu’s totalitarian regime, but recorded by Post-Communist writers who lived that age as kids. The perspectives of the grownup authors are mingled with their inner narrators’ voices (who happen to be children). The analyzed authors are: Costel Babos, „Aş crede în Dumnezeu. Amintiri reinventate”, Filip and Matei Florian, „Băiuţeii”, and Cătălin Dorian Florescu, „Vremea minunilor”. There is a paradox as some writers who had spent their infant years under the Communism seem to recall an unreservedly idyllic childhood in contrast with the hardships of the epoch. They are not the prisoners of a utopian view, but rather they describe a secure world.

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