La mémoire du goulag roumain dans les écrits de Lena Constante
The Memory of the Romanian Goulag in Lena Constante’s Writings

Summary/Abstract: One of the most interesting painters of the early forties in Romania, Lena Constante (1909-2005) is the author of the novel L’évasion silencieuse (The Silent Escape) written in French and published in the Western world. In this writing she makes extensive use of her fabulous memory, in order to tell the whole world about her gulag experience in Romania, during the first years of the communist regime, when lots of Romanian intellectuals were sentenced to death or to many years in prison simply for not agreeing to the new political order and leaders. In her book, Lena Constante tells how she was framed, simply for being close to Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu’s wife (a political figure who was going to be killed as well) and she narrates her long years in prison, as a witness to many atrocious crimes committed by the dictatorial leaders of that time.

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