Each age is a sphinx which collapses into the abyss once its mystery has been revealed. Abstract To understand the specificity of Romanian literature after 1948 and its evolution and to assume Paul Goma with lucidity and self-critical spirit, it is important to establish a tight presentation of this period which has several stages. And this is all the more necessary, as the Romanian literature, subjugated to ideological and political objectives of the Communist Party, was deprived of the

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... needed for the development of any art, becoming an area of confinement of non comprehensive language (the "meaningless formal games" did not have any sense) and hosting "export truths".