HONESTY VS METACRITICISM
HONESTY VS METACRITICISM

Summary/Abstract: The political prison of the first decades after the brutal installation of communism in Romania did not allow prisoners to write, to detain paper or to communicate their thoughts in any way. In her book published in 2019, entitled Staze și metastaze carcerale (Carceral Stases and Metastases), Ioana Cistelecan has given a complex appraisal of the mysterious evasion through words of incarcerated people who had no other resort to dignity. There are five cases selected for analysis from the Romanian Gulag. The poets and authors of memoires chosen by the author are: Nichifor Crainic, Radu Gyr, Andrei Ciurunga, Ioan Andrei (pen-name of Ioan Ploscaru), Ioan Victor Pica. Poetry was the most spread vehicle of resistance, circulated among prisoners in Morse code, either memorized or preserved as written support in most incredible ways in order to escape the vigilance of the torturers.

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