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The Literature of Romanian Socialism

After the second war, the profound revolutionary economic, social and political changes in Romania were reflected in literature by new attitudes and approaches in line with the concept of socialist humanism. It ensured the natural and legitimate continuity of Romanian culture by establishing new links with its popular and progressive tradition. The years of socialism have seen the full assertion of writers who had made their debut in the inter-war period but only in the last three decades have attained the peak of their creation. Romanian poetry provides a most sensitive record of that evolution, which has also brought to the fore an impressive number of prestigious creative personalities. Eugen Jebeleanu is a poet with a strong personality, who not only continued the tradition of Romanian lyrical verse, but also revolutionized its humanistic message and its means of expression. In surîsul Hiroşimei he takes the stance of the citizen-poet, the lucid consciousness of makind, showing a deep and committed interest in the world's major problems. Nicolae Labiş had been consideres the greatest promise not only of his generation, but of modern Romanian poetry in general. Ioan Alexandru uses his philosophical and patriotic verse in order to confess disturbing internal tensions. Zaharia Stancu was a great prose-writer and poet, whose fiction narratives are often pervade by poetic feeling, without however affecting their realistic substance. He used images of extremely fresh colours in expressing the poets pride at his peasant origin, his thirst for purity and accomplishment, his passionate love for the ancient landscape of the Danubian lowlands. Marin Preda devoted to the peasant in the Romanian plains and his relationship with history, to the philosophy of the rural world at a crucial moment of its existence, to the confrontation between a traditional, conservative psychology and the elements of the new civiization.