Postcommunist Literature – A New Literay Canon?!

Abstract

The transition from the communist to the democratic political regime
was followed by the emergence of fundamental, social, cultural, moral, economic,
and literal changes. The influence of the communist era in literature can be seen
long after the fall of the communist ideology, but in this area we find that
fundamental changes occur with regards to the canons which formed the
foundation of the communist literature. Most programmatic ideas which were the
communist canons of literature are no longer valid, they no longer reflect in the established literary work. Why should a canon which was formed on the basis of an ideology that no longer exists be taken into account?Breaking tradition and inventing new canons, and new rules governing literary practice are desired. All these new rules of writing are a form of escapism, perhaps well justified, maybe due to the enslavement that we complain of having experienced in the communist regime. They express the way in which we can take revenge on a system where we had no freedom of expression.