Lo fantástico como vía de supervivencia para Ana Blandiana; vivir, recordar y soñar

Ana Blandiana, an internationally recognized writer, has been an opponent of
the dictatorial regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu. She is a censored poet; she has had to struggle
to find a way to convey her words. She became a symbol of the resistance, and despite the
prohibition she continued to write; several of her tales and poems are both a reflection and
a critique of how she lived under communist totalitarianism. Blandiana finds a way to
live through writing. She ties her works to the fantasy genre, which are divided between
a dream world and a historical reality. The dream is the place chosen by the writer to be
able to express herself freely through the voice of her characters. In addition to the spatial
duality, Blandiana chooses to situate her narratives in a temporal duality. The protagonists
are immersed in the writer’s own past, and in an eternal present through which she projects
her hopes for a better future.