Aestheticizing the Totalitarian Violence: The Allegorical History of Communism through Romanian Subversive Poetry

Abstract

The aim of the present research is to outline a subversive history of communism in Romania by commenting on a series of allegorical clippings from the autochthonous Aesopian poetry, assimilated as places of memory, in order to reveal how the collective trauma was artistically filtered and discursively encrypted to become accessible only to a specialized interpretive community, sensitive to the ratio between the explicit and the implicit meaning of language.