In No. 20-21/2022 literary Romanians, Nicolae Manolescu drew attention to the appearance of a new edition, this time complete, of the correspondence between Ion Negojescu and Radu Stanko.

At the beginning of his commentary, the director of the main journal of the Union of Writers highlighted some technical details concerning, in particular, the differences between the first edition, edited by Horia Stanka under the leadership of Ion Negojescus, published in 1978 by Albatrossas well as 2021. Edited by Ion Vartick (who also prepared the footnotes and wrote the foreword), it seems to be closely followed by the ubiquitous Marta Petreu and Ioan Cristescu, who appeared at the Publishing Museum of Romanian Literature.

If the first edition collected 300 letters, many of them censored, the one that Nicolae Manolescu talked about in his leading article contained 23 more texts. Most of them were found by Dorina Stanka and published at the right time in Cluj Monthly Apostrophe. Nicolae Manolescu also clarified, referring, of course, to the editors, that this edition, presented as complete, still lacks 20 letters. Destroyed by Ion Negoitescu’s parents over fears they could be used as incriminating evidence against the critic arrested in 1961.

In the second part of the comment. Nicolae Manolescu presented the reasons why the generation of the 60s was relatively indifferent to the activities of the Literary Circle from Sibiu.

At the end of autumn 2022, the correspondence between Negojescu and Stanca was reprinted by the Iasi publishing house Polisher Differences between what appeared in 2021 in the Publishing House Museum of Romanian Literature and what can be read between the book’s covers Epistolary novel, the book was published in 2022 by the publishing house of Iasi Polisher, are minimal. The editors left it on is added 1943 letter to the address circle players E. Lovinescu, the letter is considered valuable Manifesto. Minor changes have been made to the afterword title Der ewige Kreis written, as I said, by Ion Vartick. The professor from Cluj also spoke about the indifference shown in the 1960s churchyi, a difference largely due to the vigilance of the censors of the time. Let’s not forget that Stefan Augustin Doinash, Ion Negoitescu, Nicolae Balote, I. D. Syrbu and others were sentenced to prison by the communists. It was not until after 1965 that they were rehabilitated, some of them working for the newly revived Oradean Magazine Family. This topic is discussed in the chapter Orad interval of the Literary Circle from Sibiu from the first volume of the book Alexander Andritsa and the journal Family (House of scientific bookCluj-Napoca, 2021) Ruksandra Havra.

Another explanation lies in the constant image of the group huddled around the magazine star against churches. Images inherited by Aurel Rau from A.E. Bakonsky. Ion Negoitescu made ample arguments for this in his letters to Radu Stanci, some of which were reinforced by Ion Vartych both in the footnotes and in the afterword already mentioned, which also quotes the instructive testimony of the late Marian Papagagi.

Ion Vartyk also insists that Literary circle from Sibiu was closely connected with Cluj. His intellectuals (Lucian Blaga and Dimitrije Popovichi are very often mentioned in the letters, but also others), the University of Cluj, exiled to Sibiu during the war and the surrender of Transylvania.

The first letter is dated January 13, 1943. It was written by Radu Stanka and was addressed to Iona Negojtescu (ibid. Dear Chau). A gap year is coming. But since 1945, the correspondence between them has become permanent. It is even maintained with extreme diligence. It remains so until 1956-1957, becomes obviously more shaky between 1958-1961, it ends with the arrest of Negojescu. Radu Stanka died in 1962. Letters are sent either through postal services or through various emissaries. Consider being reliable. There are relatively frequent indications that both Ion Negojescu and Radu Stanca know they are unwanted and that they are being watched. BODIES. Otherwise, censorship of all kinds is directly or indirectly one of the main characters of the book. It marked, influenced, conditioned and limited, as part of the communist dictatorship, the evolution of the two intellectuals. Ion Negoitescu is somewhat more enthusiastic in the early years of the correspondence, he makes repeated plans related to the recoagulation of the Cerchists, with the founding of a journal that will later be called Euphorion, even the theater of the same name. Perhaps it is this reality that led Michael Finkenthal to believe in two articles published in late 2022 in Cultural columnistwhat draftsmen would appear at least until 1947 exaggerated optimism. That they did not feel the horror from the beginning the years they gave us. Despite the fact that by that time, and especially after the abolition of the monarchy and the complete seizure of power by the PMR and the Dezh regime, all representatives Literary circle from Sibiu they had to endure all kinds of oppression. They were no longer published, and when they appeared, they were instantly blocked by party censors under the guise of writers or theatergoers. It was very difficult for all Circassians to work, they were only allowed minor, poorly paid jobs, Rada Stanka was constantly refused a transfer from Sibiu to Cluj or Bucharest. Read the entire article and leave comments on Contributors.ro