The Literature of Resentment in the Romanian Socialist Propaganda Novel.An Introduction to a Study of Fear in Fiction
The Literature of Resentment in the Romanian Socialist Propaganda Novel.An Introduction to a Study of Fear in Fiction

Summary/Abstract: The destiny of propaganda literature belongs, universally, to the dustbin of literary history. Written under pressure from an institutionalized authority - be it religious, political or both -, or just coming out of an untangled web of opportunism and despair, the texts that forwarded ideological content under the cloak of fiction have rarely survived in the collective memory of more than one generation and - even worse - have rarely been popular for more than a decade after their publication. This paper will work on the general context of the Russian Socialist Realism and sketch a few steps taken towards the attempted creation of a Romanian Socialist Realism in the early 1950s and its peak in the 1960s. Although there are hundreds of fragments of instances worth citing here, the only example of a socialist propaganda novel that speaks of the communist abuse and brutality chosen belongs to Dumitru Radu Popescu's F, one of the most important novels dedicated to cooperativization.

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