The patriotic poetry of Adrian Păunescu. An experiment of reframing history

Abstract

In her article "The patriotic poetry of Adrian Păunescu. An experiment of reframing history" Mihăilă Anamaria discusses the different aspects showed by the patriotic poetry of Adrian Păunescu, especially after 1989, but in comparison with its anterior forms. Following the concepts of Maurizio Viroli, this work intends to demonstrate the permanency of ideology in writing and critical reception, framing the historical truth and the problem of ethic view. The patriotic theme shows the social imperatives and the rhetorical changes in addition to the époque. Păunescu’s essays of “automistification”, his “censored” volumes or the interviews and the documents hidden by the Party and illustrated after 1990 prove, at the end, a modus vivendi under communism.