THE EMERGENCE OF 1960S GENERATION OF POETS IN ROMANIA, DURING COMMUNISM. PROPAGANDA DISCOURSE: "UNDER THE SIGN OF REVOLUTION", "LENIN'S GENERATION", "THE GENERATION FIGHTING AGAINST INERTIA" AND "THE GENERATION OF THE IXTH ROMANIAN COMMUNIST PARTY CONGRESS"

The purpose of this study is to highlight the influence of cultural policies carried out in communist Romania in constructing the concept of "literary generation" between 1948 and 1965. Firstly, we focus on the militantly Marxist-Leninist discourse of official legitimization regarding a so-called "contingent" of poets who graduated from the "Mihai Eminescu" School of Literature and Literary Criticism in Bucharest between 1950 and 1955. In the second part of the article, we turn our attention to the ideological necessity of reinterpreting the phrase "young generation" in the context of the proliferation of the idea that writers are "builders of socialism" (1956-1960). Here, we focus on the polemical interaction between the "generation of the fight against inertia", represented by Nicolae Labiș (1935-1956), and the generation promoted "under the sign of the Revolution", represented by Nichita Stănescu (1933-1983), Ilie Constantin (1939-2020), and Cezar Baltag (1939-1997). In the last section of our discussion, we underline the dialectic between propaganda and aesthetics from which emerged what Romanian literary history records as the "(19)60s generation", and its references the 9th Congress of the Romanian Communist Party (July 1965) and Ion Pop's synthesis work Poezia unei generaÈ›ii ["The Poetry of a Generation"] (1973), in which the literary critic also includes Nicolae Labiș. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]