Les débuts hésitants de la soviétisation de la littérature française à l’Université de Bucarest (1948-1949). Les programmes analytiques comme instrument de contrôle

Abstract

Starting from previously unexplored primary sources, namely the syllabi of French literature developed for the first time at the University of Bucharest in 1948-1949, this article aims to illustrate the transformations of foreign literature teaching in Romania at that time, in the context of the education reform decree adopted by the new Communist regime. In the field of French literature, which was an important tool in disseminating the official ideology, the analysis of these syllabi, both from the point of view of the authors, professors trained in the interwar period, such as Nicolae N. Condeescu (1904-1966), and of the pedagogical contents conveyed (literary works, writers, explanatory discourses), shows the internal mechanisms of the Sovietization process put into practice by the new regime.