%0 Journal Article %T Short guide to fiction writing under communism. The case of Romania %A Cazan, Manuela %J Romanica Cracoviensia %V Tom 15 (2015) %R 10.4467/20843917RC.15.012.4279 %N Tom 15, Numer 3 %P 173-182 %K fiction writing, Communism, Romania %@ 1732-8705 %D 2015 %U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/romanica-cracoviensia/artykul/short-guide-to-fiction-writing-under-communism-the-case-of-romania %X The study reviews the circumstances under which fiction was published in Romania under the 50 years of communism – censorship, writers’ associations, publishing houses – and illustrates them with Norman Manea’s essays in his volume On Clowns: the Dictator and the Artist.