Dinamica discursului literar reconstructiv sau Puterea, poeţii şi „Colocviul naţional de poezie (Iaşi, 1978)”
The Dynamics of the Reconstructive Literary Discourse or The Power, the Poets and the National Poetry Colloquium (Iaşi, 1978)

Summary/Abstract: The National Poetry Colloquium at the Vasile Alecsandri National Theater in Iaşi (October 18-20, 1978) remained a memorable literary event, especially because there, the resistance through culture, about which we speak and write in various ways today, has received its identity card in the sight and in the hearing of all. Today's reader who learns about the National Poetry Colloquium in Iaşi, properly wonders about what Ştefan Augustin Doinaş and Dorin Tudoran said there at that moment since their speeches brought to light the scoundrels of the Romanian culture, thus it was considered necessary that these ones, besides others, should be followed, using the specific means of Ceauşescu’s State Security Department. What we set ourselves to do through The dynamics of the reconstructive literary discourse or The Power, the poets and the “National Poetry Colloquium (Iaşi, 1978)” is to get back the historical literary truth from what we have got at hand. After having talked about The National Poetry Colloquium in Iaşi in his Poezia este sau nu este, interview given to Valeriu Stancu for “Opinia Studenţească” (no. 7-8/1978), Dorin Tudoran would write Cizmare, nu mai sus de sanda! (“România literară”, May 21, 1997), starting from what he discovered in Cartea Albă a Securităţii. Istorii literare şi artistice (1969-1989), on this topic: The National Poetry Colloquium in 1978. The persistence of the distorted image of The National Poetry Colloquium in Iaşi is a reality that cannot be corrected from a simple reason: Doinaş’s indictment and Dorin Tudoran’s pamphlet are not entirely accessible to us. He who reads the notes and reports in Cartea Albă a Securităţii. Istorii literare şi artistice (1969-1989) and in Eu, fiul lor. Dosar de Securitate on The National Poetry Colloquium in Iaşi, will notice that everyone was talking about the equivalence between Adrian Păunescu and the imaginary Necesias and Lychesias, but the officers and the informers did not dare say a word about the equivalence between the shoemaker Apelles and Ceauşescu, all of them sneaking behind the formula “serious political interpretations”. Publishing Cazul Doinaş (“Apostrof”, no. 2/2014), Gelu Ionescu, an eyewitness to The National Poetry Colloquium (1978), was to evoke the figure of Doinaş who shuffled the audience through the assumption of his paper. Having written Elegiile unui pamfletar, the preface to the volume România ca părere (2015), Sorin Antohi, another eyewitness, was to evoke the figure of the seditious Dorin Tudoran.

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