Radu Gyr, de la „cântăreț oficial” al Mișcării Legionare la poetul rezistenței din închisorile comuniste
Radu Gyr, from the "official singer" of the Legionary Movement to the poet of resistance in communist prisons

Summary/Abstract: The poet Radu Gyr is still among the controversial personalities in the collective memory, on the one hand being considered a leading figure of legionary extremism, which does not deserve any posthumous consideration, and on the other hand is considered a hero or even a martyr, due to the moral rectitude showed during the detentions under communism, but especially due to the poems created during all this time, with which he fed the spirit of resistance of thousands of political prisoners. In the present study we have focused our investigation on the biographical periods that feed the two divergent memorial currents, namely the period in which Gyr was a follower of the Legionary Movement and the period in which the poet became one of the most prominent figures of the Romanian communist prisons, in order to verify the argumentative foundations of his supporters and his critics, and in the end we proposed a model of memorial conciliation.

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