Vladimir Beșleagă or about internal exile

Abstract

If in Romania, during the communist period, one can speak of a literature of external exile and dissidence, then the concept of internal exile can be applied to the literature of Bessarabia, from the same period. Thus, some writers took refuge, in the happiest cases, in the professions of the book, especially in translations, others – in essayistic, parabolic, experimental or diary writings. They were all approached as forms of internal exile, undertaken by writers, thus risking that their works would not be published. Internal exile, most of the time, produced psychoses, neuroses, humiliations similar in amplitude to the drama characteristic of external exile. Namely, these manifestations of internal exile are reflected, for the most part, in the writings of Vladimir Beșleăgă, which constitute the research object of the present study.