Despre poezia carcerală. Poezia închisorilor comuniste
About The Carceral Poetry. The Poetry of the Communist Prisons

Summary/Abstract: A new chapter enriched after 1990 the Romanian contemporary literature. The chapter contains the literature of the communist prisons. In spite of its absence into the literary histories, the carceral poetry was a specific form of literary expression in all the dictatorial regimes. Due to the longevity and to the inclemency of the communist dictatorship, the communist carceral space is subject of many writings, especially those of memorial type, describing a staggering reality. The survivors of a non-fictional materialized Dante’s Hell wrote about “the poetry of the communist prisons” as a miraculous moral support for them. They wrote about poetry with healing capacity. The carceral poetry is frequently associated with the religious poetry, assimilating a revelatory and also a curative function to this type of poetry. Radu Gyr and Nichifor Crainic were and still are well-known authors of carceral poetry. An anthology dedicated to this type of poetry was a lack in our literature. Ioana Cistelecan has recently compiled and prefaced an anthology dedicated to the carceral poetry. The above mentioned anthology brings to the reader of our times new representative names as authors of carceral poetry.

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