Losing and Gaining Identity in the Romanian Communist Era
Losing and Gaining Identity in the Romanian Communist Era

Author(s): Marius Nica
Subject(s): Romanian Literature, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949)
Published by: Universitatea Petrol-Gaze din Ploieşti
Keywords: identity; communism; propaganda; indoctrination; alienation;
Summary/Abstract: Literature became a means of communist ideology propaganda which served well to indoctrination and alienation. Writers became engineers of souls and their works are many of them constructions with poor foundations. Literature sent the message of the scientific communist reality and in many cases displayed the perfection of socialist society. This was the way in which consciences were corrupted and served to what was called “the new world”. Having been so violently corrupted (by desacralizing words for propaganda purposes), the post-bellum literature may be considered, to an extent, a means ofpsychological torture both for writer and reader. The former became prisoner of literary constructions and the latter grew up to eventually not perceive the limitations and boundaries. Thus literature was used for achieving physical and mainly spiritual metamorphosis of the individual with great efficiency

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