Sergiu Matei Nica, Exiled in Poetry

Abstract

In this article the author examines the poetry of Sergiu Matei Nica (1917-1973), one of the most important and one of the least known Bessarabian writers of the 30s and ‘40s of the last century. During his lifetime he published a single volume Storms on the Dniester (1943). He was a political prisoner, he was deatined long years in communist prison. He left numerous manuscripts, published posthumously. The analysis is centered primarily on the poetry of the carceral universe, written in the late ‘60s early ‘70s, conceived as “a real curse”. It is a poem of inner exile, written to fill an ontological void, conceived as vindictive therapy of nostalgia for “a country crucified on the cross”.