An Informing Lecture about Stefan A. Doinas’s Poems

Abstract

Our research aims to highlight the Marxist-Leninist manner in which an informer of the Romanian Security (“Directia Generala a Securitatii Poporului”) interpreted Stefan Aug. Doinas’s volume of poems, “Laokoon’s Tribe” (“Semintia lui Laokoon”), published in 1967. The document, preserved in one of the writer’s dossiers consigned in the National Council for the Studies about Security’s Archive (“Consiliul National pentru Studierea Arhivelor Securitatii”), evinces that the agent catches a glimpse of subversive allusions, as if the poet criticizes the communist regime, but also people’s cowardice to not set their back against the physical and psychological terror.