Le visage sombre de Janus ou le maléfique idéologique dans le roman Persécutez Boèce de Vintilă Horia
Janus’ Dark Face or Maleficent Ideology in Vintilă Horia’s Punish Boethius

Summary/Abstract: We intend to deconstruct here the ideological myth of the communist paradise and to illustrate the slide-slip of utopia toward dictatorship in Vintilă Horia’s Persecutaţi-l pe Boeţiu (Persecuting Boeţiu). The novel is a story about totalitarianism and interior exile. The writer presents the inferno of the communist prisons, in which guardians applied physical and mental torture in order to brainwash the convict so as to become a new man, without personality, submissive, that is the enthusiastic and the fortunate man of the communist society. If the ideological illusion of the communist paradise is artificially maintained in order to force a change of mentality in the population, the illusion of love saves the main character of the novel in limit situations. It is through love that the exile spiritually survives the totalitarian inferno.

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