Cezar Baltag: encryptions, symbols, digressions in the context of the Ceausist regime

This article presents the connection between the poetry of the sixties generation and the Ceausius regime, in particular, the work of Cezar Baltag and the influences of the censorship of the political regime on the way in which the poet structured his speech, how he defined his voice within the fabricated aestheticism of that periods (in which he debuted), how he endured individually. For Romanian literature, the communist regime proved to be not only a limiting factor, but also a catalyst for a series of literary experiments, practiced by writers who tried to avoid propagandist writing, thus creating a new type of poetry, included in the admissible formulations. In order not to be condemned to silence, Cezar Baltag also made concessions to the regime, thus his first books: The Golden Commune (1960) and Planetary Dream (1964) represent an expensive tribute, which he later acknowledged. But what makes the writer valuable is the fact that he has preserved his cultural and artistic identity thanks to an adapted poetic formula – a saving hermeticism, which combines playful elements, which appear in Madonna of Mulberry, Defeats, Calling the Name, concepts from the esoteric sciences, from mythology, fairy tale and folklore. His hermeticism and the metaphysics addressed in his texts proved to be saviors for the poet’s spirit, and the central themes in Baltag’s lyrics have a strong individual nuance, of the poet’s personality. Which presents him as an extremely important writer, both for the lyric of that period and for the contemporary one.