Ruxandra CESEREANU
The Gulag in Romanian Prison Conscience
Instituția:
Editor, "Steaua" Cultural Magazine, Cluj
Abstract:
Most of the Romanian prison memoirs concerning the autochtonous Gulag have wished to be partial or total analyses of power and totalitarianism. Regarding the Romanian Gulag, Romanian readers have had to accept and understand an ethical-historical delay which had political reasons. In 1990 they suddenly passed from a hypocritical literature to that of the almost unbearable infernal truth and therefore they are tempted to adopt the monotony of fear and to get used to the real horrors.
The study starts with the clearing up of basic concepts of the literature and history of the Romanian Gulag. Five Romanian prisons are presented along with the atmosphere avoked by the whole prison literature.
