The double perspective: Ion Caraion about Ioan Alexandru
Recruited as an informer due to his close relationships with most representatives of the Romanian literary world, Ion Caraion’s assignment was to give in written information about writers, literary critics and any other kind of “dangerous elements” that might have been suspected of having a role in opposing the communist regime. The poet Ion Alexandru is among those he wrote about. The article aims to present how Ion Alexandru, like other representatives of the Romanian literary world, becomes a character in Caraion’s subjective history.
Keywords: Securitate, public space, reality rendered as fiction, manipulation, literary critic, poet, delator