Et les gens qui ne voulaient pas aller jusqu’au bout ont été envoyés au camp » : Matei Vișniec et la condition de l’écrivain dans les régimes totalitaires

Matei Vișniec was exiled in Western Europe before the fall of the totalitarian regime in his native country, Romania. The traumas of his life experience have left an important mark in the writer’s conscience as a result of which, after becoming a well-known Francophone writer, he started to denounce this terror in his plays, notably the trilogy that constitutes “the trial of communism through theatre”. This article draws attention to Vișniec’s ethical attitude, the writing techniques utilized in the trilogy and the way in which intellectuals can deploy resistance in such a terrifying atmosphere.