The Rewriting of a Literary Work – Between Esthetics and Ideology

Abstract

This study analyses the causes and effects of rewriting a literary work from the ideological and esthetical perspectives. The Spider's Web is published in 1938, and after the setting-up of the communist regime, its author, CellaSerghi, wishing to see her novel being published again, decides to make successive changes of her literary work for the editions from 1946, 1962 and 1971. Beyond the writer's constant preocupation for the polishing of expression , which is reflected from one edition to the next one, these changes of the content of her novel, eliminate, replace or add "certain" meanings, ment to make the book more desirable for the communist censorship.

Keywords

• novel
• rewriting
• ideology
• esthetics
• crisis