Baladă „euharistică” martiriului antitotalitarist. Radiografie pastorală a liricii „de după gratii”
A Eucharist ballad to the anti-totalitarian martyrdom. A pastoral radiography to the poetry of the prisons

Summary/Abstract: Our study, An Eucharistic Ballad to Anti-totalitarian Martyrdom, is attempting to perform a pastoral radiography of the poetry written „behind bars.” On the one hand, it deals with an academic inventory of the main themes present in the poetry of the intellectuals imprisoned for political reasons. On the other hand, the study examines its relevance for and impact on post-modern public conscience. Values such as the freedom of speech/the right to publicly express one’s opinion, patriotism/the denunciation of the “shrinking” map of Romania by the Soviet Empire, religious belief/the conviction that the public space should not be infested by atheist ideology, etc., for which many of the political prisoners from those times gave their lives, nowadays – once they have been obtained, passed as laws and entered everyday life – have lost their capacity to stir, their impact on the masses, their axiological relevance. The postmodern world is paralyzed by different attitudes: freedom has swerved toward discretionary absolutism, patriotism has melted into indifference to the “nation” or even into contempt for our own ethnic identity (the feeling of shame for being Romanian), the religious belief has reached a point where it is classified as “psychological weakness” to which only emotionally fragile people resort in order to find “emotional support.” The reversal/obsolescence of the old values, for which our forefathers shed their blood, indicates a profound axiological crisis in our contemporary world. How will Orthodoxy take corrective action?

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