Rencontres littéraires: échanges, incompréhensions et tensions entre les écrivains des "démocraties populaires" dans les années 1950

Abstract

The exchanges between the Writers' Unions during the communist era are an important part of the cultural policies of the "people's democracies". The circulation of writers in the East-European space has to ensure a certain homogenization of literary practices. This is why literary exchanges between the Communist states are intense but also strongly controlled. Nevertheless, the study of the literary encounters allows us to question this "idea of a great socialist literary community" and also to see, beyond a certain solidarity and some common literary practices, a number of difficulties, differences, inequalities, and even conflicts that often broke out between the brother countries.