Războiul civil al literaturii române. O poetică a disidenței românești

After 1990, dissidence was the most blunted active concept in totalitarianism, which continued in Romanian capitalism. Lacking quality, references became trivial. Frequently, the relationship between literature, politics, and ideology reproduced a form of dissidence with essentially the same content, without acknowledging its nature as a meta-concept. By reconstructing the global tremors that generated dissidence, our intention is to present the multiple perspectives from which
it – its factors, typologies, determinants, and echoes – must be evaluated, not only in the aftermath of the Helsinki Human Rights Conference (1975). The issue of dissidence provoked the communist regime into polemical engagement with Romanian exiles. It was the dictatorship’s final redoubt, and dissidence had irreversibly fractured the political and cultural order. As an expression of supreme resilience, dissidence functioned for a long time like a Rubik’s Cube: each fragment revealed an autonomous truth as part of the whole, until, once finally configured, it activated collective memory and linked the network at the moment of decisive change.