Tinerii scriitori şi spiritul nonconformist al anilor 1970 şi 1980 în România lui Nicolae Ceauşescu
The Young Romanian Writers and the Political Nonconformism in 1970s and 1980s in Ceausescu’s Romania

Summary/Abstract: Using mainly diaries, journals, secondary literature and archival documents, this article analyses the strategies carried on out by the communist regime in order to coerce the young generation to assume the new literary-political ideology of revolutionary humanism (the Socialist Realism of the Ceausescu era). On the other hand, we took into account the nonconformist initiatives and actions assumed by the young writers either in writing or through manifestations in the various literary circles that functioned in the 1970s and 1980s. Firstly, one analysed the significance of the appointing in the communist government of the first secretary of the Communist Youth Organization’s Central Committee at the end of 1967. We also discussed the role of the literary magazines belonging to the Communist Youth and various universities ("Amfiteatru", "Viaţa Studenţească", "Echinox", "Dialog", "Convingeri comuniste") in promoting a literature that went beyond the official literary canon. Both the mature and the younger generation of writers have shown great reluctance to escalate the political nonconformism, instead preferring "resistance through culture", that is avoiding open confrontation with political power by assuming dissent and counterculture as it existed in Poland in the 1980s.

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