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solution in getting with all means, except working, a study certificate. So, with some
„dirty jobs”, he gets his first school diploma when „having some few more teeth left in
his mouth”. „Bucking with his hoof in a headmaster’s desk”, he gets a general certificate
of education, then he signs up for faculty (extramural). When close to graduate „he was
pulled by the ears and taken who knows where” 12 .
The article Marginals to an overture by Romulus Zaharia 13 , was claimed because
presented too realistic, and not after the regime’s wish, the doctor’s situation; similar facts
but related to professors, try to approach also Szilagyi Istvan in his article The Problems
of the Countryside Teachers 14 . This kind of accounts „have been practised before” in
materials regarding other fields of activity, such for example „Nowaday Oceanology” 15
(where was criticized the lack of contribution of our country in the field of oceanologic
explorations, underlining the fact that brought many benefits from others’ researches and
discoveries), Cinematographic Repertoire facing the audience 16 (investigation made by
St. Oprea regarding the Romanian cinematographic production, who had as a conclusion
the fact that except the movie „The Dacians”, all others are at the bottom of the world’s
contemporary cinematrography). Calumniouns accounts for the editing activity came
from the narrator’s interview Ion Lancranjan, taken by Petru Sfetcu 17 . According to the
author’s opinion, books fate in general was not determined by their value, but by the
author’s position, by his situation. „If their author – it was said – is a boss somewhere, or
is going to be a boss or a general, if he has high relations with some literary circles, very
competent and able to cover ups, who guide an absent but very good „literary
scholarship”, then obtaining the certificate of authenticity and constancy for the
characters of different literary „creations”, those being poorly written, pauper or pratically
gross, was vividly and for ever assured. Regarding the literary phenomenon from our
country, the person interviewed was saying that „the analysis of this one is so badly
made, that would be a shame for the writer who coult guide his activity following such an
analysis” 18 .
A second category contains those literary writings, prose and poetry, that debated the
problems of the artistic creation and generated „the feeling of the lack of perspective, of
the impossible way of value expression, hinting social causes” 19 . A part of these
materials, through symbol, or directly, „stands up fiercely against the so-called freedom’s
limitation”. It’s designated for start, the short story Only with the right (treacherous style)
by Romulus Vulcanescu 20 . Using an allegorical form, it was considered that the author
protested against the so-called compulsoriness for poets to write ordered lines, without
content and truth. In the short story, all the poets are called at the „grand merchant of
artistic products”, that for assuring the material daily standards, asked them to write lines
in a certain way. Although he promises, demagogically, that they are free to write what
they want and how they want, „the grand merchant” sets some rules, „in the agenda,
12
AN-SJBH, fond DGPT-UO, folder 9/1967, file 3.
13
From Tribuna (Cluj), no. 48/1 XII 1966.
14
From the magazine Utunk (Cluj), no. 10, 1967.
15
Tomis, no. 1/1967.
16
Cronica (Iasi), no. 39/30 II 1967.
17
From the rubric „Creation and contemporaneousness”, Tribuna’s magazine, no. 23/8 VI 1967.
18
AN-SJBH, fund DGPT-UO, folder 9/1967, files 4-5.
19 Ibidem, file 6.
20 From Iaşul literar, no. 9/1967.