Gala Galaction: a case of consciousness
The present text evokes the great and conscience-shaping writer Gala
Galaction and his dramatic case of conscience, facing a regime that he loathed
and which he eventually joins, not out of conviction but of conformism and
under compulsion. Gala Galaction’s struggles of conscience of would probably
have never been known if the recent editions of the Journal would not have
reintroduced the passages removed by communist censorship, but especially if
the pages of the 1947-1952 Journal were not discovered and published. After
adhering to the new regime, Gala Galaction realizes that the ideals of social
justice he once believed in are no longer in its ideology. He sees himself
walking “in the counsel of the unbelievers,” “in the way of sinners,” siting
“on the throne of the blasphemers.”
BORIS BUZILĂ
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