Aspecte ale autocenzurii ȋn România comunistă
Aspecte ale autocenzurii ȋn România comunistă

Summary/Abstract: Self-censorship is defined in dictionaries as censoring one’s ownthoughts, ideas or actions. The idea of this study originated from the observation that wehave a vast bibliography about the communist censorship in Romania, but none of theauthors wrote about self-censorship, about which Ion Negoiţescu, the literary critic, said thatit is "even more dangerous than censorship".The study’s author believes that the easiest way to identify this phenomenon is byreading the volumes of letters published after 1985. The correspondence between two formerfriends, writers Lucian Boz (settled in Australia) and N. Steinhardt (living in Romania at thattime) reveals strong self-censorship, both being aware of the impact that the negative ideas,read by the censors employed by the Securitate (Romanian Secret Police), may have on thelife of N. Steinhardt. Rarely, we find some double meaning words, such as the “bitter” coffeethat Steinhard was drinking, the real significance being the harsh life under the communistregime. Quite different is the message of the uncensored letters sent by Steinhard to LucianBoz from the Western free world, where he had been invited by a monastery. The sameideas can be found in the exchanges of letters between Emil Cioran, Mircea Eliade, andothers.The author of this research launches an invitation to all the writers and journalists whohave published during the communist regime to testify on their fight against censorship andself-censorship, knowing that every author would like to publish his work in his lifetime, notposthumously.

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