Cenzura și subterfugiile scriitorilor români în perioada interbelică

Abstract

The interwar period in Romania was characterized by a complicated interaction between
democratic ambitions and authoritarian control in the field of the press. Although the 1923
Constitution protected freedom of expression, later governments enforced censorship—particularly in
times of political unrest. This was seen in national publications as well as local media from towns like
Galați and Brăila, which were so important for regional political dialogue. The methods of
censorship, the organizations in charge of press control, and the techniques used by writers and
reporters to get beyond constraints are investigated in this paper. To negotiate these restrictions,
eminent writers such as Tudor Arghezi, Camil Petrescu, and Nae Ionescu employed allegory, satire,
and coded language. The paper also looks at the case of a suppressed story from the Acțiunea daily in
Brăila, showing how smaller newspapers encountered the same difficulties as national ones.