Between Electra and the kolkhoz woman. Ana Blandiana`s poetry from 1959

Abstract

A historical-literary recovery is not accomplished by over-interpreting empathically or by blindly rejecting eroded poetry, compromised by age or propagandistic influence. The young Otilia Coman, also known as Ana Blandiana, is sensitive and talented. Her chosen poetic epigonism is not straightforward: the poet can write with skill, much like the interwar poets. When her father is incarcerated, her poetic assertion takes on a psychoanalytic dimension. Electra must triumph in adverse social and political conditions. However, youth erases her compromises. She does not even judge ethics in the same way as others. Her primary fascination, the immediate paradise, is the printed word. For it, in its name, the student is ready to write in any register. She can relinquish internal commandments and the voice of self-censorship.