METAMORFOZELE SCRIITORULUI ȘI OMULUI A.E. BACONSKY ÎN REGIMUL TOTALITAR DIN ROMANIA

Summary. The article explores Baconsky’s personal and artistic transformations in the contextof the totalitarian regime, analyzing the impact of the repressive policy on his literary creation andpersonal life. It is known that a strong metamorphic character individualizes the creation of the writerof Bessarabian origin A.E. Baconsky. Determined by his evolving relationship with the ideology ofthe Communist Party, the variations in his creative work reflect a persistent dilemma.During his high school years, he took refuge with his family in Oltenia. While he was still astudent at the University of Cluj, he became a sympathizer of the Communist Party and activelypublished in left-wing newspapers.In the second stage of his creation, A.E. Baconsky recognizes his own metamorphosis and announces it publicly in 1956. Through his speech, the writer discussed a question of main interestfor the value and evolution of poetry in Romanian literature. With the publication of “The MemoryFlux” (1957), his poetry is already the result of a process of exteriorization and meditation. From nowon, the ideological stamp becomes increasingly difficult to perceive, especially in the prose volume“The Equinox of Fools and Other Stories” (1967), which represents the attainment of full artisticconsciousness.Key words: A.E. Baconsky, communist regime, political ideology, engaged literature, Bessarabia, Romania.