Remembering Romanian Communist Times: New Insights on the Banality of Evil
Analysing two recent books in which prominent Romanian writers (Ana Blandiana and Gabriel Liiceanu) recount their lives during communism, we intend to reflect on how literary memoirs (written in very different forms) deal with the (recent) communist past and its troublesome heritage – not only for R...
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Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
2017-12-01
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| description | Analysing two recent books in which prominent Romanian writers (Ana Blandiana and Gabriel Liiceanu) recount their lives during communism, we intend to reflect on how literary memoirs (written in very different forms) deal with the (recent) communist past and its troublesome heritage – not only for Romanian culture in general, but also for surviving individuals. Both authors under discussion attempt to come to terms with an evil they confronted daily in their regular lives; the questions they pose focus not only on “how that was possible”, or “how evil could be lived through on a daily basis”, but also on “how those stories are to be told” nowadays, to a reader growing more and more estranged from that past, and how those personal lives can get a more general, historical, meaning, through literature. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b8622afdf88b4cd39d44b9c4f371af722022-12-22T02:49:05ZengBabes-Bolyai University, Cluj-NapocaMetacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory2457-88272017-12-01329110910.24193/mjcst.2017.4.05Remembering Romanian Communist Times: New Insights on the Banality of EvilIoana Bot0Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaAnalysing two recent books in which prominent Romanian writers (Ana Blandiana and Gabriel Liiceanu) recount their lives during communism, we intend to reflect on how literary memoirs (written in very different forms) deal with the (recent) communist past and its troublesome heritage – not only for Romanian culture in general, but also for surviving individuals. Both authors under discussion attempt to come to terms with an evil they confronted daily in their regular lives; the questions they pose focus not only on “how that was possible”, or “how evil could be lived through on a daily basis”, but also on “how those stories are to be told” nowadays, to a reader growing more and more estranged from that past, and how those personal lives can get a more general, historical, meaning, through literature.http://www.metacriticjournal.com/article/83/remembering-romanian-communist-times-new-insights-on-the-banality-of-evilcommunismliterary memoirseveryday lifebanality of evilrhetoric of ethicAna BlandianaGabriel Liiceanu |
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