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74 Lucian Chişuwriters. The connection of G. Sandomirski and Boris Pilneak with thedissident writer proved fatal 29 .As far as Romania is concerned, the political influence exercisedauthoritatively by the U.S.S.R in the countries of the communist blochas direct consequences for the destiny of Istrati’s work. Istrati will berehabilitated in his own country after a long silence. What was necessarywas a propitious moment, which coincides with the year when Hruşciovtakes the political command and officially condemns Stalin’s personalitycult. Against the background of a tendency of national emancipation(from the tutelage of Soviet politics), the publishing of Istrati’s writingsis prefaced by a short article published by Geo Bogza 30 . Then, a part of thework is re-edited, starting with Ciulinii Bărăganului (1957). The prefaceto the volume was the literary historian Mircea Zaciu, incidentally alsothe first coordinator of Dicţionar [integral] de Scriitori Români/ TheDictionary of Romanian Writers. However, he affirms that the currentagainst the writer’s rehabilitation was still very strong. The old reasons andthe political contextualizing from Spovedanie pentru învinşi/Confessionfor the Defeated, precluded any initiatives. It is again Mircea Zaciu 31 whoexplains why, even if he is included in the small dictionary elaborated bythe Zaciu collective under the title 111 scriitori români (1978), Panait Istratiis taken out at the last moment.Istrati, the man and the work, appear properly represented, in theample texts of analytical synthesis in Dicţionarul Scriitorilor Români 32 ,being fully restored him to absolutely all his rights, accompanied by arich iconography, a synoptic table of his life and work, with critical andbibliographic references, etc. in Dicţionarul General al Literaturii Române,(DGLR) 33 , edited in 2005.Lastly, we must make a few additional observations on Istrati’s posterityin France, he writer’s country of literary adoption, where the Association29Emil Iordache 2001, Panait Istrati şi mâna lungă a K.G.B.-ului, in „Românialiterară”, no. 17, 21.30Geo Bogza 1956, Mai mult decât fugara clipă, în „Contemporanul”, 12 oct.31Entretien avec Mircea Zaciu, în „Cahiers Panaït Istrati” 1996. Cercle PanaïtIstrati, Valence, no. 13, 379-383.32Dicţionarul Scriitorilor Români, 1996, Bucureşti: Editura Fundaţiei CulturaleRomâne, tom. 2, 215-218.33Dicţionarul General a Literaturii Române (DGLR), vol. III (E/K), 2005,Bucureşti: Univers Enciclopedic Publishers, 689-697. In all this period (1989-2009) thereappear in Romanian culture tens of literary dictionaries. In each of these tomes, the authorand his work are presented in rich detail, but not always with absolute objectivity.