Monica GHEŢ
The Quarrell of Words
Instituția:
Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj, Faculty of Letters
Abstract:
The text looks into the forms of Romanian anti-totalitarian culture, especially in the first two decades of the Second World War, the way in which men of letters expressed their rejection of controlled culture. The interpretation of anti-totalitarian culture is in a hermeneutic manner and is supported by the interpretation of terminology, dictionary entries connected to "ANTI" (resistance, dissidence, opponence). The conclusion is that apart from the isolated anti-communist resistance in the mountains there was no other form of coherent-collective resistance organised on the level of the majority of the population in Romania, not to mention dissidence. Only individual gestures and small groups kept alive faith in alternative solutions.
