The Poetry of Vasile Romanciuc in Literary Exegesis (I)

The article aims to present how Vasile Romanciuc's poetry published until the 90s of the 20th century was perceived by literary critics. The whole approach follows, in diachrony, the critical discourses of some famous names from Bessarabia: Andrei Țurcanu, Mihail Dolgan, Ion Ciocanu, Alexandru Burlacu, Grigore Chiper, Eugen Lungu, etc., in order to highlight the way in which various critics interpreted the poet's creation and how the poet's volumes were perceived and evaluated in the two eras (totalitarian and post-totalitarian), emphasizing the fact that the critical discourse, like the literary one, was influenced by the censorship's ruthless eye, which is why the interpretation of texts was made, during the communist period, only within the limits allowed at that time. At the same time, we have tried to bring to the readers' attention poems that have not enjoyed the look of a critical eye, although they represented true gestures of courage in a society marked by ideological freezing.