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alphabetically”, saying that there is a single censorship, a single judge: „me”, and a single
penalty „pen life forbiddance”. When, shortly after, some poets try to write about truth,
their right arm is plaster in gypsum. The rebellion attempt is late, because the gypsum
falls, for some of them together with the arm, and for the others remains forever rigid.
Against the guidance of art and literature, stands up N. Manolescu in the article
Contemporaneity and artistic universe 21 , where he writes, among the others: „Any
mixture in the inner atributes of literature is a disaster; literature must be left to evolve by
itself, because – why is this thing so hard to get?- literature is made by writers, not by
theoreticians”. The short story The Corridor by Dumitru Tepeneag 22 , was approached
because the author „tried to demonstrate the nowadays man follows a checkpointed road
with compulsory rules, being obligated to escape on a corridor without any perspective,
full of obstacles and of the bleeding bodies of the sacrificed ones” 23 . Into a long corridor,
with pieces of furniture, one upon another, the hero of the story agonizes desperately to
get to the light, to the window. His efforts are useless, because at every step he hits the
furniture with different destinations and a huge and massive stall, immovable. His despair
is amplified by the terror made by the smell of „bruised, chopped books”. In the middle
of such a heavy climate, he nostalgically remembers his childhood, when, on the same
corridor, he had the opportunity to watch through a window a white horse, colored birds,
green grass, everything in a vivid, shiny light, while now, prisoner in the wildwood of
furniture, he can’t even get to the window, feeling himself no enough high and strong to
destroy the obstacles on his way.
Problems for censorship made also some materials on themes related to the origins of
the language and of the Romanian people, the older or newer boundaries of the country.
Many contained frequent references to territories that didn’t make part of Romania, and
proved that the economical and cultural tradition of the inhabitants who lived here,
showed their common origin with Romanians. It was mentioned the study The Roman
Ruins from Komarovo by N. Gostar 24 , where the author confuted the soviet scientist’s
opinion M.I. Smişko, that all the material tracks discovered at Komarovo, Cernauti
region, could have aborigine origins, saying that on the contrary, the close study of those
tracks prove Roman origin. The historiographer from Iasi added that there was a Roman
castrum made with the purpose to defend the boundaries of Trajan’s Dacia and that only
in the III-IV centuries appear the inhabitants’ tracks, overlapping them.
Another category of notices materials of censorship referred to those who discussed
about different contentious international problems, using often the symbol or an
allegorical way of expression. Using as a comparison element the potato, the satire with
the same title by Valeriu Sirbu 25 „condemn, with a cynical tone, the abusive dealing of
the states by outlander forces”. The poet’s outrage, said the censors, was directed against
the mixture of the great powers into the inner life of other countries, mixture that goes till
the administrative separation of those and even to the control of the people’s ideas and
conceptions, to hatred and hostility between brothers 26 . This is what the censors say. The
21 From the magazine Cronica (Iasi), no. 2, 14.I.1967.
22 From the magazine Orizont, (Timisoara), no. 7, 1967.
23 AN-SJBH, fund DGPT-UO, folder 9/1967, file 7.
24 From The Annales of the “Al. I. Cuza” University, Iasi, History series, 1967.
25 From the magazine Tribuna (Cluj), no. 27, 6.VII.1967.
26 AN-SJBH, fund DGPT-UO, folder 9/1967, file 12.