With the cold war above and the moral law inwardly  Cover Image

Cu războiul rece deasupra şi legea morală în sine
With the cold war above and the moral law inwardly

Author(s): Mihaela Bal
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Universitatea »1 Decembrie 1918« Alba Iulia
Keywords: the Cold War; the Iron Curtain; Good; Evil; tragicomedy; utopias

Summary/Abstract: The most important moments of the Cold War were the outright confrontation between the USSR and America, the blockade of Berlin (June 1948-May 1949), Korean War (1950-1953) and the Cuban missile crisis (October 1962). After the Yalta Conference, 1945, our country is won by USSR. Then the Cold War took the frenzy totalitarian form: marches, demonstrations of friendship to the great Russian friend rescuer, economics agreements disadvantaged to our country. Great events of the world are censored, presented piecemeal in our country by those who were paid to praise the Russian diplomacy. However, in those years, after the Iron Curtain is interposed between the Eastern and the Western countries, there are people who had the courage to face the confession danger and one of them is the writer Ion D. Sîrbu. His journal, entitled “Diary of the journalist without the journal”, written in 80, fails to submit metaphorically the Cold War. Besides the Journal, in Ion D. Sîrbu’s work we can also see the symbolic image of the world’s war. It’s about hic tragicomedy, “Palutus and the mountebanks”. Ion D. Sîrbu uses two concepts to illustrate the world during the Cold War: the Good and the Evil. Every revolution begins with the overthrow of Evil: the burning of pictures, slogans, dreams, utopias, finally a new dictatorship and again a revolution. In this way, the Evil lives forever. The perceptions over the Good generate moral, endless conflicts, because Good is the misleading state, which destroys the human being’s lucidity. The confrontation between Good and Evil is one of misleading state. There is no difference between them.

  • Issue Year: 13/2012
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 23-38
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Romanian
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