Censorship in Romania
Author: Lidia Vianu
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9789639116092
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ion Vianu: The trap of history
Author: Lidia Vianu
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9789639116092
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ion Vianu: The trap of history
Author: Article 19 (Organization)
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Liliana Corobca
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2022-11-08
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 1644211513
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A fascinating narrative of life in communist Romania, and a thought-provoking meditation on the nature of literature and censorship. Winner of the 2023 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize A Censor’s Notebook is a window into the intimate workings of censorship under communism, steeped in mystery and secrets and lies, confirming the power of literature to capture personal and political truths. The novel begins with a seemingly non-fiction frame story—an exchange of letters between the author and Emilia Codrescu, the female chief of the Secret Documents Office in Romania’s feared State Directorate of Media and Printing, the government branch responsible for censorship. Codrescu had been responsible for the burning and shredding of the censors’ notebooks and the state secrets in them, but prior to fleeing the country in 1974 she had stolen one of these notebooks. Now, forty years later, she makes the notebook available to Liliana, the character of the author, for the newly instituted Museum of Communism. The work of a censor—a job about which it is forbidden to talk—is revealed in this notebook, which discloses the structures of this mysterious institution and describes how these professional readers and ideological error hunters are burdened with hundreds of manuscripts, strict deadlines, and threatening penalties. The censors lose their identity, and are often frazzled by neuroses and other illnesses.
Author: Rubén Jarazo Álvarez
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2014-08-11
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1443865672
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collective work aims to compare media (and in particular cultural press) in Francoist Spain and Communist Romania, placing the two opposing paradigms in a common approach with the intention of identifying shared patterns and intricate connections between them, but, at the same time, without ignoring their radical differences. This comparison is performed both explicitly, through several chapters focusing on the general methodological implications of such a comparison between Francoist Spain and Communist Romania in the development of totalitarian / dictatorial propagandistic systems; and implicitly, by offering the academic frame to a series of case studies from both regimes. The contributors to this volume – Spanish, Anglo-Saxon and Romanian scholars – approach several aspects of media in relation to politics, propaganda, historical or social aspects in the two regimes, based on their academic backgrounds: history, cultural studies, media and literature. The volume intends to suggest – through its collection of general, comparative or analytic chapters, as well as through a new approach on two political and cultural phenomena otherwise studied as opposing paradigms – the need for a larger debate on the potential of the approach to these phenomena in a common framework.
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