Post-Communist Literary Revisals: Literary Movement, Aesthetic Demarche, Political Phenomenon?
Post-Communist Literary Revisals: Literary Movement, Aesthetic Demarche, Political Phenomenon?

Summary/Abstract: If for Eugen Lovinescu the mutation theory of aesthetic values determined and triggered organically the process of revisals according to a natural necessity and cadence, regarding the most visible of post-communist revisals the movement, even if it pretends to be a natural one, related to the innate physiology of culture, is not quite convincing as a pure axiological approach entirely supported solely by the aesthetic principle, but is exercised from outside the cultural nature. Are they truly “revisals”? A difference in perception was acquired between the A difference in perception was acquired between the esthetic approach of the literary work in Lovinescu’s definition, that warrants the freedom of the cultural act and an ethical, moral, and political approach. Insidious, yet ever more aggressive the extra literary normative network tends to overwhelm, to secularize and to control the esthetic realm up to the point where the intrinsic value of the literary work becomes obsolete subordinated to ethical and finally political norms. From here to the idea of revisionism is but a step and that step was taken. It is certain that the interference between culture and ideology can generate distortion, can upset the intrinsic value of the literary work, the work risking to turn into a simple vessel of propaganda. The mass media political transformation of the cultural act became a global certainty.

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